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...coping at least with the look of college dorms, which potential donors tend to see first, may be to enlist student support. In an experiment in "dormitory democracy," students at the University of Connecticut took over all the lighter maintenance in one older dorm: building walls, painting, waxing, replacing light bulbs. For six years the plan has kept costs down. And giving the students responsibility also has cut back significantly on vandalism...
...Soviet invasion continued to reverberate across Southwest Asia. In different ways, Pakistan, India and Iran were all being nervously conditioned by the potential threat of further Soviet moves, whether military or diplomatic. Pakistan scrambled to enlist foreign support for its defense. A quick response came from neighboring China. Making the most of a previously scheduled visit, Chinese Foreign Minister Huang Hua toured Afghan refugee camps and emphasized Peking's three-fold commitment: to support the insurgency, to aid the 440,000 Afghan refugees in Pakistan and, most important, to "safeguard Pakistan's national independence and security...
...hidden in that spacious closet. But he wants the record set straight--or at least set it his way--on the CIA's involvement in Watergate. Helms says Nixon fired him in 1973 and banished him to Iran (as ambassador) because the President was furious when Helms refused to enlist the CIA in the Watergate cover-up. The CIA was not directly behind the break-in (though some who were had worked for the Agency), says Helms, and the facts seem to back...
After each statehouse rally, he gives a luncheon for local born-again pastors, hoping to enlist support for Moral Majority. He mentions the need for political ecumenism, and bemoans the fact that several million "conservative Christians"-his label for those who more or less agree with his reading of the Bible-do not vote. "If there is one person in this room not registered," he tells the pastors, "repent of it. It's a sin." That message must be repeated in every congregation, he says. The order of the day must be: "Get them saved, baptized and registered...
Organizers of the two-year-old Students Helping Students (SHS) program are planning to tighten requirements for upperclassmen guides this year and enlist faculty help to expand the program...