Word: georgetown
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...strong Catholic Church, private ownership of 75% of the country's farm land, a flourishing dissident movement. Then, the birth of an independent labor movement last August established a rival power center among the very working masses that the party claimed to represent. Says William Hyland of Georgetown's Center for Strategic and International Studies: "It is the final demonstration that the [Communist] system does not work. The people it's designed to benefit most have finally said they can't stand it any longer." Should that example spread to other East bloc satellites, it could...
Moscow's apparent strategy, says Georgetown's Hyland, appeared to be aimed at maintaining pressure on the Polish party until the hard-liners could gain control. But obviously the Soviets were as worried and mystified as everybody else. As one jittery Soviet official told a West German diplomat in Moscow, "We must be careful. Nobody knows where this crazy Polish drama is taking us all-not just the Soviet Union, but all of us, East and West alike." -By Thomas A. Sancton...
...their decision, the Justices seemed to be retreating a bit from earlier sex-discrimination decisions that the court now regards as too liberal. The message in last week's ruling, suggests Georgetown Law Professor Dennis Hutchinson: "We didn't really mean to go that...
...Several other appointments are now said to be in the works: Brent Scowcroft, 56, former National Security Adviser under President Ford, as Ambassador to the Soviet Union; John J. Lewis Jr., 54, chairman of Phoenix's Combined Communications Corp., to Britain; Robert Neumann, 65, the vice chairman of Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies and a former Ambassador to Afghanistan and Morocco, to Saudi Arabia; Robert Nesen, 63, a California Cadillac dealer who owns a ranch next to Reagan's, to Australia; Paul Nitze, 74, former disarmament negotiator in the Nixon Administration, to West...
...NOTEBOOK: The top six finishers in the mile at the NCAAs received All-American status, including Georgetown's olympian John Gregorek in sixth place...The rivalry between Beckford and Clark dates back several years to when the two competed in the national junior championships...