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Foreign journalists who are based outside South Africa can visit Zimbabwe, and the country's press freedoms still exceed those of most other black African nations. Nevertheless, the decision seemed to be another disappointing sign that, three years after wresting independence from white rule, black-governed Zimbabwe was slipping into the mold of so many other African states...
...House version and the $849.7 billion Senate version contain more tax increases and domestic spending, and less defense, than Reagan requested in his Jan. 31 budget message. Reagan cannot veto a budget resolution. But he can veto individual appropriations measures, and he promises to do so if they substantially exceed his own spending guidelines...
...Harvard Square project poses a weight problem. With only 20-ton steel beams holding up the ceiling of the subway station beneath it. Omphalos cannot exceed 35 tons. By working back and forth from a half-size model to a hand-held quarter-size one. Hadzi hopes to accommodate the restriction. Eventually he will build a full-size model, perhaps in the Carpenter Center basement. Clearly, a concern for public safety puts constraints on Hadzi's work. But it was reassuring in the late 60s when war protestors climbed to the top of Thermopylae outside Boston City Hall...
...spring, but also by the conversion of recalcitrant farmers. They seem to be at last responding to the initiatives outlined in Brezhnev's controversial "Food Program," under which farmers throughout the Soviet Union have begun to form "contract brigades" that reward members with cash or produce whenever crops exceed a predetermined goal. Says a U.S. expert: "By the inefficient standards of Soviet agriculture, the contract system appears to be a step forward...
...control the practice than those who use liquor for unknown reasons. Vaillant claims that a serious drinker does not proceed automatically down the path to alcoholism and, indeed, may be able to lead a remarkably stable and happy life. The study shows that moderate drinkers (who do not exceed an average of four drinks per day) often turn out to be better adjusted socially than total abstainers...