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Last spring, several undergraduate organizations led by divestment activists conducted a campus-wide petition drive to insist that the University's chief governing body hold an open meeting between students and Corporation members. The even-man body rejected the request but agreed to a closed meeting with a select group of council members and house committee chairmen...
...Soviet Union tries to insist that foreign ships stick to specified sea lanes when making an innocent passage, something it has no right to do, the lawyer said...
...infected patient is a native of the Cape Verde Islands off the western coast of Africa. Her diagnosis was quickly confirmed at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta with specialized blood tests that are not yet commercially available. CDC officials insist that her HIV-2 infection is an isolated case. Epidemiologists have screened nearly 23,000 U.S. blood samples for HIV-2 in the past 13 months without finding a single case. Says the CDC's Gerald Schochetman: "At present there is no great concern...
Also troubling is the fact that it is far from certain that either Detroit paper is in immediate danger of failing. While Knight-Ridder executives insist the Free Press (circ. 639,312 daily; 735,000 Sunday) cannot survive continued competition from the News (circ. 686,787 daily; 840,000 Sunday), Needelman's report paints a different picture. Both papers, he says, spent "extravagantly" in the expectation that they would either triumph over the competition or be rewarded anyway with a lucrative J.O.A. Monies currently cited by Knight-Ridder as part of the Free Press's $100 million losses were once...
...Chicago, Marva Collins has brought order and learning -- and national acclaim -- to Westside Preparatory School with her own brand of rules. Chewing gum is out: "If they insist on chewing gum, we have them do a paper on the etymology of the word gum." Any cocky youngster who walks into Westside with a defiant swagger, or wearing gang jewelry, gets special treatment: "I put my arm on their shoulder and say, 'Darling, is your hip broken?' Or, 'You're going to have to take out that earring...