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...trailing yards of metal "spaghetti," apparently tore through the skin of the whig. When the engine flew off, it carried away the pumps for one of the plane's three hydraulic systems. The engine may also have cut through hydraulic lines in the front of the wing. In either case, fluid necessary to maintain pressure on controls spilled out. The leading-edge flaps that were extended from the front of the whig to supply extra lift on takeoff may have been struck and damaged by the engine. Or the lack of hydraulic pressure to keep the flaps...
...each other, Washington and Moscow might pause and decide to start negotiating. This, at least, is the argument for having a capability for waging limited nuclear war. It could buy time and prevent Washington from facing, at a moment of confrontation with the Kremlin, the dilemma of having either to capitulate or to order a massive atomic attack. But there is an obvious, enormous danger. Once the military nuclear threshold is crossed, there is no guarantee that the momentum can be controlled to keep the exchange limited. Warns Secretary Brown: The use of "any nuclear weapons. . . carries a very high...
...unemployment falls mainly on the Gastarbeiter, the 3.9 million "guest workers" and their families imported over the years from Turkey, Yugoslavia, Italy, Greece and Portugal to do the menial jobs that West Germans disdain. As jobs have become scarcer, more than a million Gastarbeiter have been repatriated, either by inducement or expulsion; the remainder live as alienated poor in urban ghettos, cut off from the rest of society...
Twelve of the 42 corporations that have already been asked to provide information about their South African operations either have chosen not to answer Harvard's questionnaire or have answered inadequately. So what does the ACSR propose to do? Write them again. What the committee fails to realize is that these companies will continue to scoff at Harvard's alleged concern about corporate involvement in South Africa as long as the University refuses to go public...
...external donors to the University and to be appreciative of their generosity and to recognize that this generosity can be given or taken away is very short-sighted," he says. He adds, "One of every three dollars on education spent at Harvard comes from the generosity of some donor, either directly or from endowment income." There is a widespread syndrome among students and faculty at Harvard to be ungrateful, while expecting the world to be deferential, Allison says...