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...could not engage in a major tank war for more than eight weeks without either risking defeat or having to resort to tactical nuclear weapons-a perilous decision that could result in an all-out nuclear exchange. Says Thomas A. Callaghan, director of the Allied Interdependence program at the Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies: "That is too high a price to pay to retrieve a military disaster that might have been avoided by strong conventional forces...
Harvard's three freshmen from the People's Republic of China (PRC) constitute about one-tenth of the undergraduates from that country now studying in the United States. Other colleges with more than one PRC undergraduate include Sonoma State University of California (5), Georgetown University (4), The University of California at Riverside (4), Temple University (3), and SUNY Albany, according to rough figures kept by the Committee on Scholarly Communications with...
...combs government documents and consults with officials of multinational corporations that move large amounts of money. De Vries also regularly travels to Paris, Frankfurt and London, where he enjoys an open door at central banks. Last week during the IMF meeting, he received visitors at an elegant 19th century Georgetown row house that Morgan Guaranty had rented for the occasion...
After the ceremony, Jewish leaders strongly criticized Georgetown for accepting the gift. Ira Silverstein, director of special programs for the American Jewish Committee, said the Arab Studies Center has a "clearly-marked pro-Arab, anti-Israel bias in its selection of curriculum material, its faculty appointments and speakers...
Silverstein added that in accepting the endowment, "Georgetown may be selling something precious to Americans-the integrity of its universities...