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...report on advising, which the council passed without dissent, endorses the expansion of a program that lets upperclassmen advise freshman on academics and Harvard life...
Against this preponderance of pessimism, Carter closes the book by suggesting that, because of their common biblical dissent and their obvious desire for peace, the peoples of the Middle East can live together without the threat of violence among and between adherents of the three major faiths. But during the last two millennia this common heritage has proved too weak a tourniquet to stop the blood of Abraham from flowing. Carter offers little reason to believe that times have changed...
Underlying Nixon's rationale is a fervent if hard-to-prove belief that virtually all the revolutionaries in South Viet Nam were agents of North Viet Nam. He rejects the idea that there was any significant homegrown dissent, any genuine civil war. Yet some of the evidence he adduces indicates the opposite: the fact that North Viet Nam imprisoned erstwhile South Vietnamese guerrillas suggests that these dissidents were viewed as dangerous nationalists. In justifying his claim that he "won the war" but that Congress lacked the will to honor its commitments and so "lost the peace," Nixon contends that...
...unconstitutional. As a result, the National Conservative Political Action Committee spent almost $10 million in 1984 on pro-Reagan activities, and other ostensibly independent groups spent nearly $5 1/2 million more. Walter Mondale, by contrast, had less than $1 million spent on his behalf by independent PACs. In his dissent, Justice Byron White argued that the independence of the ideological PACs is mainly a charade, a view shared by Democratic leaders and others...
...West European antimissile movement, which the Soviets have fervently encouraged, staged small, mostly discreet demonstrations across the street from the Soviet mission; a handful of Americans joined them. Dissent was far more evident in Belgium, which has been debating whether to deploy U.S. cruise missiles. To ensure that the basing plan went ahead, Kampelman, Tower and Glitman lobbied Prime Minister Wilfried Martens during a day trip to Brussels on Monday. On Friday, Martens announced Belgium would proceed because an accord on limiting INF missiles would be "impossible in the short term"; hours later, the first cruises arrived in the country...