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Other changes will give administration officials greater say over who the Alumni Association nominates, despite the fact that the Board is supposed to evaluate the performance of all administration officials...
Despite the defeat of the four other HRAAA candidates for the Board this year, HRAAA officials have predicted that Tutu's presence will give the Board a definitive pro-divestment slant. Some even predicted that the University would divest its $163.8 million in South Africa-related investments within the year...
...month study, an Army commission has proposed that the wording of the code be changed to "nor tolerate such acts by other cadets." The aim is still to condemn the foul deed, but now also to keep a more open mind toward the individual who committed it. This would give the cadet honor boards greater leeway in deciding punishment and thus enable an offender to remain at the Point with a chance to prove himself. Although the academy superintendent has long had less dire options, expulsion has been the usual fate...
Quayle has been building a reputation for himself behind the scenes too. Last month the Indiana conservative formed an unlikely alliance with a Brooklyn liberal, Congressman Stephen Solarz, on a complex issue. Quayle returned from a trip to Southeast Asia convinced that the U.S. should give military assistance to Prince Norodom Sihanouk's faction in Cambodia. Solarz shared that view. Together they lobbied to deflect a Senate proposal to bar such aid. Quayle's initiative surprised Solarz on two counts. "Quayle seemed to be one of the few in the Administration who really seized the issue," he says...
...most concrete accomplishment of the four-day visit was a joint declaration committing both countries to "overcoming the division of Europe" and sharing "a common European home." The wording of the first point was crucial to the West Germans, who hope that someday one of the divisions to give way will be the separation of the two Germanys. The second is Gorbachev's formulation for placing the Soviet Union in the European mainstream...