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...Rightly Understood." Government action is an acceptable means to a noble end. Witness the farm development programs responsible for the most productive agricultural system in the world. But a government action--or failure to act--which allows or tacitly encourages imprudent behaviour is reprehensible. The refusal of Congress to expel convicted embezzler Rep. Charles Diggs; the legitimization of gambling and state lotteries; the refusal to counter pornography and the creation of sex education curricula--all these steps can only promote suspect values, he argues...
...organization that became the CRR was founded in 1969 to punish student demonstrators. A committee of Faculty members, administrators and students, with the power to suspend or expel students, the CRR was organized to make it almost impossible for students to receive fair hearings. It met behind closed doors, accepted hearsay evidence, prohibited appeals outside of itself and did not give students equal representation in its membership. Because of these conditions and because students felt the CRR existed only to stifle political dissent, they boycotted the committee from the outset...
...they have been resisting foreign invaders. The mujahedin have the rallying point of a common enemy, the Soviets, and any regime unmistakably identified as Moscow's puppet may be doomed. But that does not mean that even with heavy increases in outside assistance, the rebels can defeat and expel the Soviets...
With remnants of the South African force still in Angola by week's end, the Luanda government threatened to appeal for help to expel them forcibly. Though the U.S. reversed an earlier pronouncement that it would boycott a planned U.N. special session on Namibia, it was determined to maintain a neutral role. Explained a U.S. official: "We are prepared to take the heat and hope that by taking heat we might facilitate compromises in the long run," meaning that support to South Africa now might translate into a settlement with Pretoria on Namibia later. -By Russ Hoyle. Reported...
...speak out in public. Most important, Doe forced a showdown with Weh Syen, his staunchest critic in the P.R.C., who had publicly lashed out at Doe's decision to close the Libyan embassy when it renamed itself a "people's bureau" without Liberian authorization, and to expel nine of the 15 Soviet diplomats stationed in Monrovia on suspicion of spying...