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...proceed. The striking prisoners were then sent a 32-page British position paper that made it clear that London would never grant them political status. The document, however, did indicate that Britain was prepared to consider prison reforms once the fast had ended. There was a hint that some of the strikers' other demands -such as the right to wear civilian clothes -might in the end be granted...
Nobody is yet very sure if many-or any-such suggestions will actually be translated into Government action. But in addition to its conservative direction, there is the first faint hint that Ronald Reagan's Administration is willing to take risks in the hope of getting results. This is an approach that has not been tried very much in Washington in recent years...
...Before the trial began, there was speculation that Jiang Qmg would defend herself by claiming that Mao had ordered or approved her actions. If she did use that argument last week, it was carefully edited out of the portions of the trial shown daily on television. Indeed, the only hint of Mao's involvement was the charge, made in the official press, that Jiang in her testimony had made denials and tried to shift the responsibility to others both lower and higher than she." Whether or not that was an oblique reference to Mao, every Chinese knows that...
...this continuation, but it now seems that he is as bored with the matter as anyone else. The CRR never meets, he says, but "it was established by Faculty legislation and it has never been abolished, so I don't think we have any choice." Provided with a hint like this, that Dean Epps is just doing his job and might indeed have had it otherwise if the choice were up to him, I believe the time has come to discuss seriously with the Faculty the solution which Dean Epps himself suggests--abolishing the committee. And I believe that some...
...going to happen next. This occupational tic, this desire to sound "knowing" about the not yet knowable, is what makes so much journalism quickly forgettable. The urge is highly visible during the Reagan interregnum, with Washington reporters and columnists desperately inflating every little nod about future policies, or hint about appointments, from the Reagan camp...