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...Under Reagan, the peace process has come to a screeching halt," Carter declares, "and the debacle in Lebanon severely damaged or destroyed our influence in that area." Carter complains that instead of negotiation, Reagan "has tended to prefer the threat or use of American military force," a policy that has proved to be "particularly painful and embarrassing" in the Middle East. The former President agrees with Arab moderates like Jordan's King Hussein that for the U.S. to have focused so heavily on Lebanon was "wasteful and counterproductive." Carter's advice: "The initiative for peace talks must come from...
...claimed victory. Iran, saying its forces had killed or wounded at least 700 enemy soldiers, charged ^ that the defending Iraqi troops had again used poison gas; the accusation could not be confirmed independently. (Most authorities agree that Iraqi forces used chemical weapons early last year in an effort to halt an Iranian advance.) Baghdad broadcast TV footage showing hundreds of dead Iranian troops in the battle zone. Even so, the Iranians did not mount the human-wave assault the Iraqis had been expecting for months, possibly because the latest offensive had limited objectives: to strengthen Iranian positions in the marshlands...
Thanks to the new legislation, the Two-Thirds Twist will grind to a halt in 1989. Until then, the Registrar's Office will compute students' honors according to each set of rules, awarding the higher degree where the outcomes differ. Somehow, it's hard to conceive of the new system working to any one individual's advantage--but it should work to everyone's collective advantage, eliminating the loopholes by which some undergraduates cop inflated degrees...
...light of a State Superior Court decision, on February 26, upholding Cambridge's newly enacted halt on all "toxic and hazardous substances" research, the fact that Cambridge is the third most densely populated city in the nation clinches the argument against ADL's nerve gas testing However, the contradiction of, in effect, seeking out danger in the name of safety, only brings into focus a national issue of which Cambridge is an extreme case...
...come up for a series of funding votes in the next few weeks. Using his favorite name for the missile, the President pleaded with one group: "Let us not unilaterally weaken our position as we begin the talks. The worst signal we could send the Soviets would be to halt the production of the MX Peacekeeper program." Amplifying on that theme in his regular Saturday radio message, Reagan said such a signal would tell the Soviets that "they can gain more through propaganda and stonewalling than through serious negotiations...