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...great technological advance that has given rise to difficult judgement questions, some educators are skeptical that any less than drastic changes will have a real impact on students' sensitivity to the growing problems of ethics...
...offensive arms control is dead in the water. The Administration's proposals in the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks in 1982-83 were transparently nonnegotiable because they required drastic, one-sided cuts in Soviet forces. To make matters worse, the Soviets walked out of those talks last year. As of now, the Administration has no unified plan for resuming negotiations, much less achieving an agreement. Star Wars itself jeopardizes what little is left of arms control. Despite Administration disclaimers to the contrary, an all-out Strategic Defense Initiative would surely bring the U.S. into violation of the nuclear-arms-control...
...billion. Its principal owner, Public Service Co. of New Hampshire, admitted last month that because of Seabrook it may be forced into bankruptcy. If that happens, it will be the first major U.S. utility to file for bankruptcy since the Great Depression. Last week, in a drastic effort to keep itself solvent, the company abruptly halted work on Seabrook and stopped paying dividends to shareholders. The company hopes to resume work by arranging for new loans...
Even the pro-government Times of India criticized Mrs. Gandhi for proceeding with a trip to Arab capitals beginning this week. "If her government has recognized the situation to be critical enough to warrant such drastic measures," it asked in an editorial, "can she afford to be away from the country for even a day? The trip will appear to be an exercise in escapism." Mrs. Gandhi, caught between pressures to do more and less, must wonder if escape lies anywhere...
...story worth remembering. If the theatregoer is patient, not too sleepy, and willing to work, the evening is by no means a theatrical dead loss. Swartz and her company have coaxed a good deal out of this literary curiosity, perhaps as much as they possibly could have retrieved without drastic retranslation and even more drastic cutting. But one is disposed to frustration because such efforts and talent, applied elsewhere, would have achieved so much more. It's a shame when mainstage mystique and mainstage selection pressures induce mainstage directors to make things so difficult for themselves...