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Students praised the program for providing them with a chance to enact the internationalization of the University's curricula being promoted by President Derek...
...centerpiece of California's campaign is a grass-roots ballot measure to enact the most ambitious package of environmental protection of any state in the country. Its liberal supporters like Van de Kamp, who has been strongly identified with the initiative, describe it as an "environmental bill of rights." Other enthusiasts know it simply as the Big Green. It aims at nothing less than protecting all food, air and water from chemical contamination. If passed in November, it would authorize a $500 million oil- spill contingency fund. It would also create a new elective office, that of an "environmental advocate...
...news is that a larger environmental ambition is in harness. John Kennedy launched the Peace Corps. There may be some symmetry in the fact that a man in the Bush White House has hatched the idea for something called the Earth Corps, which will try to enact the spirit of the last line of Kennedy's Inaugural Address in 1961: "Here on earth God's work must truly...
...China still appears unresponsive when Congress reconvenes on Jan. 23, the lawmakers might do two things: override Bush's veto of legislation extending the visas of Chinese students who fear persecution if they return home, and enact economic sanctions stricter than those the Administration reluctantly imposed in June. The disclosure last week that the Administration is preparing to loosen the sanctions by allowing export of three communications satellites to be launched by Chinese rockets did nothing to improve the congressional mood...
...live in the six satellite nations. Poland's Communists "have realized that unleashing conflict with the church has been a mistake throughout the past 45 years," says Alojzy Orszulik, the Polish bishops' spokesman. The nation, which remains 95% Catholic, this year became the first in the Soviet bloc to enact a law restoring all basic rights to the churches. Diplomatic relations with the Holy See were established in July. Hungary, also rapidly liberalizing, is 60% Catholic and has sizable Lutheran and Reformed churches. The regime is rewriting the religious-control laws, has abolished the repressive state Office for Church Affairs...