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Entirely different arguments have been advanced by other critics, who insist that universities should do nothing whatsoever in help students who fail to register. According to this view, even unsubsidized loans and campus jobs represent a form of help or at least afford some measure of convenience to nonregistering students. As such, these jobs and loans arguably constitute encouragement to those who violate the law and manifest disrespect on the University's part toward the will of Congress...
Though Watt vigorously promoted the plan when it was first introduced, his aides insist that he never had much faith in it. "It was a creation of the White House staff," says Watt's chief spokesman, Douglas Baldwin, who also fixed some of the blame on members of the Office of Management and Budget. "They thought you could get rid of the deficit like Mary Poppins, by just wiggling your nose." But the Secretary went along until recently, when, according to Baldwin, he became convinced that the program had become "a political liability to the President. And once...
Those favoring the increase insist that the IMF needs the funds to continue propping up shaky nations. The agency is committed to lending more than $10 billion to Brazil, Mexico and other countries this year to keep them from defaulting on their enormous foreign debts. Warned Volcker: "The IMF is at the very center of efforts involving hundreds of banks and dozens of countries to achieve the adjustment necessary to control the international debt situation." Reagan, who has called the boost "important legislation for international economic stability," has been huddling with Congressmen to push the measure...
...harsh tone, there are no signs that the Socialists and the Communists are moving toward an open break. However uncomfortable it may sometimes be for them, the Communists, who hold four ministerial portfolios, grudgingly support Mitterrand's economic austerity plan and recent incentives for private enterprise. They insist that they will remain in the government, come what may. Said Marchais: "Those who think that we are preparing to leave the government because of all this are entertaining false illusions...
...Peking's plans are more cloudy than black and white. The Chinese insist, for instance, that the current talks concern only Peking and London. When Hong Kong's Governor, Sir Edward Youde, announced that he would attend the discussions as a representative of the colony's citizens, he was quickly upbraided. "Mr. Youde," said a Chinese statement, "can only represent the British government in the talks...