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...controversy over SDI intensified last week. At a White House meeting, President Reagan and his top advisers came close to adopting a Pentagon- sponsored position on SDI testing that the Soviets as well as many congressional and allied leaders insist would be a violation of the 1972 treaty limiting antiballistic missiles (ABMS). The combination of resumed testing and what would amount to a scrapping of the ABM treaty could touch off more protests against Administration policy, both at home and abroad...
It’s a reputation that Harvard is working hard to change. While administrators insist that the standards for tenure haven’t been—and shouldn’t be—lowered, they say that Harvard is working harder to treat every junior faculty member like a potential tenure candidate...
...Democrats insist that Mollohan's fall does not neutralize their corruption attacks against the GOP. ?That?s wishful thinking on their part,? says Brendan Daly, the spokesman for House Democratic leader, Nancy Pelosi. Counterattacking, Pelosi has criticized a watered-down lobbying reform bill House Republicans introduced this week that only temporarily bans private funding of House member travel and allows private interest groups to pay for meals and flights on corporate jets. She's also linking two hot-button issues to corruption: gas prices and prescription drugs. ?People know that Republicans are in charge in Washington and the culture...
...Their recent cooperation with the political parties notwithstanding, many observers here insist that the Maoists will never settle for anything less than the armed takeover of the country. For now, the country's political leaders know they cannot hope to overwhelm the Maoists by arms: rather they have to try and wean them back into the political system, by negotiating with them, and attempting to write a constitution that the Maoists can accept. "I am not vouching for the Maoists," says Arjun Narsingh K.C, a prominent member of the Nepali Congress, a major political party. "I cannot promise that they...
...paid at foreign-owned factories would rise by 40%, a move designed to end mass strikes by garment workers in the south. The country's first oil refinery has been delayed for seven years and two foreign investors have pulled out of the $1.5 billion project because government officials insist the refinery be located not in the south, near existing ports and oil fields, but in the center of the country, in the hope of aiding that region's development...