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...Dowling plan still faces several sticky problems that may stand in the way of implementation. Foremost among these roadblocks may be student apathy. The constitution needs 3200 "yea" votes--a majority of the College--for ratification. Given that only 35 per cent of the undergraduate student body bothered to vote in the April referendum, getting a majority of the College to support the Dowling plan this fall could prove difficult. "People won't vote against the plan--they just won't vote at all," Nancy J. Northrop '81, a member of the Dowling committee, has said...
Vibrant and attractive, she could be a successful businesswoman or a television newscaster. But then Mirella Freni opens her mouth to sing. And suddenly there is only the voice-the voice of the world's foremost lyric soprano...
...Foremost among them is a sick economy, currently groaning under a $27 billion foreign debt and a projected drop of 15% in national income for 1981. Wages have risen 20% in the past year, but there are far less consumer goods to buy. Meat, butter, sugar and cereals have been rationed for months, and still the queues grow longer. In Silesia, some miners reportedly have fainted because of malnutrition, and doctors report more ailments linked to poor diets...
...chosen is very long and very dangerous. They are afraid of the consequences facing them. We all fell into the simplicity of doing away with subversion at any cost, and now we are paying the price." The Argentine military is in the isolated position that the country's foremost writer, Jorge Luis Borges, once described as the headstrong and independent role of all Argentines: "patriots without countrymen." Sadly, Argentina remains a country with far less need of patriots than of countrymen with a common cause. -By George Russell. Reported by William McWhirter/Buenos Aires
...task of allaying fears in friendly capitals that abrupt change was in the offing. Shortly after Mitterrand's inauguration last month, Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson set off for Bonn for meetings with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher. His mission: to reassure France's foremost political and economic partner that "close and friendly Franco-German relations would continue" despite the departure of Schmidt's personal friend, cher Valéry, from the Elysée. Cheysson next boarded an Air France Concorde for Washington, where he charmed President Ronald Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander Haig with...