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Finally, on Wednesday, April 26, The Crimson reported the Reverend Jesse Jackson's speech at the IOP Forum. Buried deep in the article was the fact that Jackson, despite the anti-ROTC protest outside the IOP, gave his support to the presence of ROTC units of college campuses. One would think that the fact that Jackson, an ardent liberal and champion of homosexual rights, held such a view would merit greater attention. Come on guys, if he had come out against ROTC, you certainly would have run yet another blaring headline such as "Jackson Rips ROTC" or "Jackson Condemns Homophobic...
What is truly insidious about senior bars, then, is the way they threaten to bring our years at Harvard full circle. Have you noticed, for instance, how many people at senior bars are people you haven't seen since Freshperson Week? In fact, almost all the scheduled senior events, from the brunch at the Harvard Union to the various fetes during Commencement Week, are advertised with the slogan, "It'll be just like the time our class did this Freshperson Week...
...fact, it's hard to understand why people are nostalgic for the late 1970s at all. I can't imagine that anyone truly misses disco, leisure suits, white polyester, pop rocks, Shaun Cassidy, mood rings, John Travolta, sideburns, Billy beer, pet rocks, Jim Jones, Starsky and Hutch, macrame, fern bars, Leif Garrett, Dynamite magazine, Craig Morton, Carter Country, Orca the Killer Whale, the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders, Debby Boone, Pong, the Captain and Tennille, gas lines, or the movie Ice Castles and its execrable theme song...
Though Shevardnadze is smoother than Gromyko, he can be just as tough as his predecessor. It was Shevardnadze, after all, who forced an unhappy President Najibullah to accept the fact that the Soviets were leaving Afghanistan. In February he told Oliver Tambo, leader of the African National Congress, that the Soviet Union would no longer support the A.N.C.'s "war of national liberation" in southern Africa. And, when necessary, Shevardnadze will blatantly lie, as British officials believe he did when he told Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe last month that the Soviet Union possessed only a fraction of the chemical...
...into a full-blown trade war. But tempers cooled last week when the two sides reached an interim agreement. The U.S. is resuming shipments of untreated beef, totaling $15 million annually, which the E.C. had included in the ban because U.S. inspectors refused to certify that it was in fact untreated. In turn, the U.S. tariffs on E.C. goods will be scaled back. Trade Representative Carla Hills said that while the interim agreement was a positive step, the U.S. still feels that the E.C.'s import ban is "an unjustifiable restriction on trade...