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Another embarrassing case involves neutral Sweden, which forbids the sale of its arms to countries at war. The Swedish arms firm Bofors was reported last year by local newspapers to have sold several hundred Robot 70 portable ground-to-air missiles to Iran between 1983 and 1985. Last month the Belgian daily Le Soir reported that Swedish customs officials had sent a bulky dossier to their counterparts in Brussels. The file contained details of the shipment of Swedish war materiel destined for Iran through the Belgian port of Zeebrugge. Last week Martin Ardbo, the managing director of Bofors weapons division...
Gorbachev's proposal calls for removal of medium-range missiles from Europe over a five-year period. Washington would withdraw 108 Pershing IIs and 464 ground-launched cruise missiles, while Moscow would dismantle 270 SS-20 missiles. The Soviets have 112 SS-4 missiles in Europe, but these are being replaced by more advanced SS-20s. Both sides would then be limited to 100 medium-range warheads, the Soviets on their Asian territory, the Americans on U.S. soil...
...result in a narrowing of curriculum and homogenization of higher education. "There is widespread recognition that the smorgasboard approach in the 60s and 70s didn't serve students as well as it might," said Banta, who operates under a system of financial incentives. "If we find a middle ground between telling students exactly what to do and the cafe-style approach of before, we will have narrowed the curriculum somewhat. But that's not all bad," she said...
...play nearly crosses the line. Nonfeminist women are depicted as vacuous trifles and virtually every man is an evil, swaggering oppressor--"Let's go back to my place and struggle over sexism" leers one of the predatory "male feminists," who sees the movement as a potentially fruitful pick-up ground. The issue of abortion is resolved neatly with one utterance from a player...
...Testing Ground:A loss does not count in the league standings, so an out-of-league game provides an excellent testing ground for new plays and new players. Got an end-around you want to try? Give it a go against Bucknell. If it works, you can spring it on Princeton or Penn later in the season. If it fails, you can forget about...