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Finally, there is the "sleaze factor": Mondale aides claim that the Reaganauts have shown disregard for propriety, if not the rule of law. More than 30 Reagan appointees have been investigated for one thing or another. In sum, the Mondale staff depicts an incumbent who, while his policies fail and his aides retain counsel, obliviously floats along, taking afternoon naps and leafing through old Reader's Digests for speech ideas. Reagan, Mondale told TIME last week, "is looking at the world through Rose Garden-colored glasses. For him to say that it's a safer world, that interest...
RESIGNED. Anthony J. Alvarado, 41, innovative chancellor for a year of the New York City school system; four days before an administrative hearing into his fitness; in New York City. Alvarado was suspended in March after a preliminary report accused him of demonstrating "a disturbing disregard for many rules governing professional and personal conduct," including accepting $63,000 in loans, many from subordinates who then earned large amounts of overtime pay. He still faces three criminal investigations into his tangled financial affairs...
...that the Justices might undermine their 1964 ruling in New York Times vs. Sullivan. That decision established that to sue journalists for libel, public officials-later extended to public figures-must prove "actual malice," meaning that statements were made with the knowledge that they were false, or with reckless disregard for the truth. Said Rochester, N.Y., Libel Attorney John McCrory: "We were all terribly worried that the court was ready to repudiate Sullivan by abandoning it as a standard, or eroding it." That, says Lawyer Abrams, would have "changed the world in terms of libel." Instead, he said, the court...
Nonetheless, "U.S. companies should not disregard ethical obligations to encourage changes in the apartheid system simply because such changes would offend South African law," the report states. Committee members say the difficulty of their demands is evidence of their commitment to produce change in South Africa through Harvard's investments...
...principal organizers of the "Encampment for Divestiture" and the "Rally for Divestment." I was very disturbed by the remarks of Peter J. Howe in the editorial entitled "Divestiture Follies." They demonstrate a callous disregard of the efforts of student activism and, more importantly, a fundamental ignorance of the issues surrounding divestiture...