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...word throughout the world. Nonetheless, despite their awareness of the religious arrogance of older missionaries, and their sensitivity to the customs and rituals of the peoples they serve, questions remain as to whether the spiritual good they do is not balanced, in part, by social and cultural harm. In the Irian Jaya village of Mulia, for example, schools set up by the missionaries threaten a complex family structure that developed over the course of centuries. The children no longer can help their mothers work in the gardens and the rise in monogamy adds to the wives' labor...
...sense, a "damn the deficit" approach to the nation's budgeting seems to be gaining some admirers. Explains Rhode Island's Republican Senator, John Chafee, referring to some of his despairing colleagues: "When you're rounding off between a $ 150 billion and $200 billion deficit, what harm will it do to spend another $5 billion to put people back to work?" Adds Republican Senator William Cohen of Maine: "People add amendments and say, 'Oh, it's only another $300 million...
...John E. O. Neill, assistant manager of the freshman dining room at Harvard, said the. University accommodates vegetarians "exceptionally well." He added that "Students say they want health foods, and then turn around and ask for harm burgers and hot dogs...
...required sales over the three-year period allotted by the bill, the state may well be able to divest without a loss. By adopting a similar policy of gradual divestiture, the University should be able to end its support for apartheid without incurring losses that would cause it significant harm...
...Israeli military authorities to enter two refugee camps in Beirut. Last week the commission sent formal letters of warning to Prime Minister Begin, Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir and six ranking military and intelligence officials. The commission advised each man that he was "liable to be harmed" by the results of the inquiry and that he had 15 days in which to request permission to reappear before the commission to offer further testimony. Each recipient was also informed that he "may avail himself of legal counsel." In most cases, the "harm" the commission referred to was related...