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...many, these words are simply characteristic of the tempestuous civil rights era, but might they also characterize an enduring theme of the Black struggle in America? The question has become grave today, with the Reagan administration's policies jeopardizing recently acquired benefits. Can and will Blacks continue to advance while the government discourages more busing to desegregate schools and lets Black unemployment climb to more than 16 per cent, and Conservatives more openly oppose the won-with-blood Voting Rights...
Reagan summoned Stockman to the Oval Office in early afternoon to express his "grave concern and disappointment" over his budget director's December interview with The Atlantic Monthly, in which Stockman said he and others "didn't think it all through" and "didn't add up the numbers" for the administration's new economic program...
...students will choose a wet party over a dry one. By confining alcohol to in-House gatherings and parties in student rooms, the College effectively cordons off students from those in other House-at least on Friday and Saturday nights. Already the Student Assembly has cited grave problems organizing College-wide dances because of the alcohol ban. At an institution where separatism has emerged as a key problem in recent years, that impact is ironic indeed. Harvard can try all it wants to bridge the racial and other gaps separating the Houses. But if its policies towards activities as central...
...heard it for years: 'Don't let the cradle of civilization be its grave.' Well, now the threat is true. A Middle East war could never be contained." The moderate Arabs to whom Nixon talked liked Egypt's new President, Hosni Mubarak, better than Sadat, Nixon found. But it is vital, he argues, that the U.S. should push ahead with the Camp David peace plan, that the Palestine Liberation Organization must recognize Israel's right to exist ("That can happen") and that this country "not allow a vacuum to be left on the Palestinian issue...
Last week the Sandinistas defended the arrests of the COSEP leaders. Daniel Ortega, a junta member, went on television to claim that the revolution was under grave attack and that the government would first defend the country's workers, farmers and the poor. Said Ortega: "We are at the door of destruction in Nicaragua. We are arriving at a point of no return from which the government of national reconstruction will have difficulty regaining its legitimacy in the eyes of the people...