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...GSAS exceeded its financial aid budgetby $600,000, prompting Dean of the Faculty A.Michael Spence to grant the school an extra $1million...
After two seasons of struggling hand to mouth, South Africa Now seems likely to endure. Its producers have received badly needed funding in the form of a $100,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation and $25,000 from the Carnegie Corporation. The show has also won a satellite slot that will make it available to the nation's 334 PBS stations by late spring. Far from fearing competition from the upstart broadcast, many network staffers are actively rooting for its success. That is one piece of good news about South Africa that everyone can share...
This Sunday the Poet's Theater presents an "evening of Irish music, poetry and song" with Liam Clancy of the Clancy Brothers. Accompaying Clancy will be four Irish musicians, Geraldine Dunne, Paul Grant, Thomas Keane and Martin Murray, in a celebration of Irish ballads and poetry. The songwriter will perform traditional folk tunes as well as more modern ones with the company, who will play instruments ranging from fiddle and mandolin to the flute, harp and pipe...
DIVESTMENT has been the focus of alumni and student protests for several years, and Tutu has a moral authority with regard to this issue that would grant greater credibility to the divestment movement. His election and the power that he would bring to the pro-divestment faction of overseers may indeed mean that the virtually inactive Board of Overseers will be able to accomplish an important goal...
...also wrestling with difficulties posed by the Soviet Union's decision to nearly triple the number of exit visas it will grant its citizens this year. Washington has long prodded Moscow for just such an opening to emigres. To accommodate the new Soviet arrivals, the Reagan Administration last year transferred 7,000 slots previously reserved for Asian immigrants to Soviet refugees, outraging advocates for Cambodian and Vietnamese immigrants...