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...their professors and students to teach and learn as they think best. Over the years, we have gradually persuaded outside groups, including corporations, not to try to use financial leverage to impose their views upon our campuses. We cannot expect these organizations to continue exercising such restraint if we insist on resorting to boycotts in an effort to impose our will on them. Once powerful groups in the society feel free to use economic sanctions to force their opinions on others, universities are bound to lose heavily in the process...
Last week's testimony came in the trial of an alleged cocaine dealer, Curtis Strong, a former clubhouse caterer for the Philadelphia Phillies. He was among seven Pennsylvania men indicted on drug-dealing charges last May by a federal grand jury, but the only one so far to insist on a trial (three others pleaded guilty, and no trial dates have been set for the remaining three). In return for promises of cooperation, prosecutors went out of their way to conceal the identity of the players who allegedly bought cocaine from the seven defendants. But Strong's trial destroyed that...
...first President to give importance to the role of press secretary. It has become an art form under Ronald Reagan. The press's constant worry about being misled accounts for most of those acrimonious spats between White House reporters and presidential press secretaries. Larry Speakes is the latest to insist self-righteously on a narrow definition of his probity: it was the White House, not Speakes himself, that put out the misleading report that no biopsy had been performed on the President's skin cancer. But, protested ^ Helen Thomas of U.P.I., "you were not candid." Speakes: "Do you want...
...same time, Reagan announced that he would soon be taking measures to open overseas markets to American companies by aggressively moving against unfair trading practices. Said he: "We must continue to insist of our trading partners that free trade also be fair trade...
...thinking about what is at the heart of our disagreements." As an example of the Soviets' "one-sided negotiating positions," he cited demands that the U.S. abandon Star Wars "even as they pursue the greatest research program on earth. And then, in a masterpiece of chutzpah, they insist repeatedly that ours is a program designed to acquire a first-strike capability." His key sentence: "Without some change in the Soviet approach to security issues, in fact in the thinking that underlies it, I fear that even incremental improvements will be extremely hard to reach...