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Still, the IDAF has powerful advocates in Washington. Sen. Paul E. Tsongas (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate ad hoc monitoring group on Southern Africa, is a sponsor of the organization and has worked closely with Carstens in the past. At Carsten's suggestion, Tsongas and other members of Congress "adopted" political prisoners in South Africa to whom they corresponded and lent moral support...
Ironically, the greatest debate the ACSR seems likely to enter into in the next year will not center on any particular issue, such as South Africa, but rather this broader question of just what the ACSR's role should be. The Harvard Board of Overseers formed a special ad hoc committee last December to begin examining the development of Harvard's investment-monitoring apparatus. Roderick Park '53, chairman of the seven-member committee, says that his group has been meeting with members of the ACSR, the Corporation, and others, and will issue a report this December on the status...
Policy made in such an ad hoc manner has left important questions unanswered. Is the U.S. in fact committed to overturning Nicaragua's Sandinista government, or only to harassing it enough to keep it from fomenting Marxist revolution throughout Central America? Reagan and his advisers have made statements that can be interpreted either way. How serious is the Administration about promoting negotiations for a regional agreement that would ban all foreign military advisers and cross-border arms shipments in Central America? Reagan last week had Special Envoy Richard Stone hand-carry a letter to the Presidents of the so-called...
Following the three rejections, the department and the ad hoc committee "consensually" drew up a list of about a dozen scholars--all data specialists. Acting Chairman of the Department William Alonso, said yesterday. Such preliminary lists are usually drawn up by departments acting alone...
Still, the IDAF has powerful advocates in Washington. Sen. Paul E. Tsongas (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate ad hoc monitoring group on Southern Africa, is a sponsor of the organization and has worked closely with Carstens in the past. At Carsten's suggestion, Tsongas and other members of Congress "adopted" political prisoners in South Africa to whom they corresponded and lent moral support...