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...valid marriage never existed in the first place. Once a rarity, annulments in the U.S. have grown from a mere 338 in 1968 to around 32,000 last year. In the Vatican last week the International Canon Law Commission sent to Pope John Paul for approval the final draft of a new code that would slow down U.S. annulment procedure, but streamline things in much of the world...
...report whose preliminary draft sparked protests on campus last fall because of its suggestion that admissions test scores overpredict the performance of some Black and woman students is now "all done" and will be circulated among academic deans within several months...
Robert E. Klitgaard '68, special assistant to President Bok and author of the admissions study, said yesterday the 300-page final draft is "perfectly innocuous," but declined to comment on whether it contains the controversial section on the later performance of minority and women students...
Klitgaard said that only he and Bok--who commissioned the admissions study--have seen the final draft, but added he will show the completed report to "a couple of others" for "technical review" next month once he polishes off sections on the report's statistical procedures...
...sale, 51 against, nine uncommitted. The biggest loss was Democratic Leader Robert C. Byrd of Virginia, who had insisted that AWACS was "not a partisan issue" and thus had led some in the White House to hope for his support. Byrd was so secretive that he had his staff draft two complete and contradictory speeches the night before. Then Wednesday morning, in his red speechifying vest, he spent one hour and four minutes saying no. Argued Byrd: "The primary focus of concern for the countries in the region remains the Arab-Israeli conflict, not the Soviet threat." The AWACS sale...