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Spence's report reserved its harshest criticism for members of the now-disbanded committee governing the Center, which attacked Safran's handling of the grants. The report was generally conciliatory in tone, faulting Harvard as much as Safran. It did little to diffuse the national controversy...
Among Israelis, the harshest reaction to the exchange came from Jewish settlers in the West Bank, who clashed with celebrating Palestinians and protested against the action of the Israeli government. In Hebron, a handful of settlers raced to the spot where a busload of Palestinian prisoners was arriving and began firing semiautomatic weapons into the air to disperse a crowd of 200 Arabs. Some of the settlers cried, "Death to the Arabs!" Hundreds of West Bank settlers demonstrated outside the Knesset. Their demand: release of 27 Israelis who have been convicted of terrorism or who are charged with being members...
DIED. John Martin, 91, dean of U.S. dance critics and tireless champion of the modern dance movement; in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. For 35 years at the New York Times, he was American dance's best friend and one of its harshest critics, presciently molding both an audience and a direction for pioneers of choreography like Martha Graham. Martin looked beyond the longestablished patterns of steps and positions, preaching that the elements of dance were an end in themselves. "The modern dance is not a system," he famously proclaimed, "it is a point of view...
...even the government's harshest critics admit it has preserved a measure of pluralism and political freedom. According to some dissidents, that attitude is pragmatic: it encourages Western nations to provide assistance. Opposition leaders say privately the threat of the contras has also had a moderating effect. For his part, Vice President Sergio Ramirez Mercado insists, "There's not a step we could take that would be acceptable to Reagan, except to leave the country." He adds, "We have never thought of establishing a one-party system of Marxism. We don't want a Soviet or Bulgarian model." Among...
...movement. He softened enforcement of occupational safety and health regulations and of fair labor standards. He also allowed the Labor Department's budget to be cut from $30.1 billion to $23.5 billion and its work force trimmed from 22,000 to fewer than 18,000. One of Donovan's harshest critics, AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland, said last week that his organization "hopes that the President now will appoint a person who enjoys the respect and confidence of labor as well as management and the public at large...