Word: implementation
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...where the sanctions bill passed by an overwhelming 84 to 14. The President hopes to win over some Senators by nominating Edward Perkins, a black career diplomat who is now U.S. envoy to Liberia, to be Ambassador to South Africa. Reagan is also counting on the European Community to implement milder measures. This week the twelve E.C. foreign ministers are scheduled to adopt a package of restrictions that would ban imports of South African coal, steel, iron ore and gold coins...
...heard on campuses from Maine to California. Like Harvard, most institutions of higher learning are wrestling with the question of how to teach undergraduates and what to teach them. Eight years ago, in reaction to the freewheeling 1960s, when course requirements were far less focused, Harvard voted to implement a so-called core curriculum. Largely the handiwork of Rosovsky, the core today is a collection of nearly 150 courses drawn from six broad academic areas, including science, literature and the arts and foreign cultures, from which undergraduates must select 25% of their baccalaureate studies. Rosovsky believes the core assures common...
Jaruzelski is banking on Moscow's support to help implement the economic- reform plan endorsed by the congress last week. The program includes giving greater authority to plant managers and holding down wages to help beat inflation. Jaruzelski also hopes to boost exports to aid in repaying some of Poland's $31 billion foreign debt. He would like to enlist the aid of the U.S. as well. But a resumption of normal relations is unlikely, since Warsaw refuses to meet the U.S. demand for a "national reconciliation" that would recognize the opposition and end human-rights abuses...
...ANGELES--While conceding there will be gaps in their planned coast-to-coast linkup, promoters of Hands Across America are already preparing to implement a maverick plan to distribute up to $50 million raised by the event...
Meanwhile, college President Francis C. Oakley agreed to implement three of four proposals put forth by Williams Students for Divestment to educate students about selling stocks as a means of pressing for an end to racial segregation in South Africa, college spokesman James G. Kolesar said Thursday...