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...amount of money available will also determine how the program operates, says Bok. He says the University is reluctant to divert much existing money to the new program, and he and others involved will have to raise money to support it. Fund raising will most directly affect enrollment...
...flare-up coincides with an annual Vietnamese offensive against Khmer Rouge guerrillas opposed to Viet Nam's occupation of Kampuchea. Beginning in March, Vietnamese troops attacked rebel positions along the border between Thailand and Kampuchea. The Chinese, who support the guerrillas, use their own attacks to divert Vietnamese attention-and firepower-from Kampuchea...
...image of the fair that lingers longest in the mind is half a mile of intricate shapes called the Wonderwall, which connects the two main gates. Though it was designed for a practical purpose, to divert the eye from overhead power lines, fantasy has overtaken function. The fair's master architects, Perez Associates, claim that the Wonderwall was inspired by Piranesi's etching of the Circus Maximus in Rome, but the multicolored Styrofoam and Fiberglas-mesh structure looks more as if it had been dreamed up in a Bourbon Street bar by the design team of Dali...
Answer: The China trip is almost exclusively for home consumption, and the Administration is hoping Reagan can use the publicity to divert attention from his latest foreign policy disasters in Lebanon and Central America, Congress complete repudiation of the Reagan FY85 budget, and growing public awareness of Administration sleaziness...
...infected with Nicaraguan-style revolution. If Mexico actually did lurch left, coming under a Communist regime or, more likely, splitting apart into warring fiefs, the U.S. would be confronted by a teeming enemy (pop. 75 million) along its 2,000-mile, currently undefended border. The U.S. would have to divert troops now faced off against the Soviets from Berlin to the Persian Gulf to the western Pacific. The Soviets, of course, would like nothing better than to have the U.S. saddled with the Western Hemisphere equivalent of the U.S.S.R.'s own hostile neighbor, China. Refugees by the hundreds...