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With (I hope) as little insult to Mr. Orwell as possible, here it is at a Reagan news conference...
...Harvard-Radcliffe) views" and that the student-ratified Constitutions provides us with a most direct means for discovering those views: referenda (article III, section 5). I fear that the Crimson's argument is a two edged sword: if we attempt to learn Constitution opinion, we are levelling an "insult" as students who have paid for us to "make" decisions for them; yet, if we failed to do so, we would have been lambasted for ignoring the wishes of Harvard-Radcliffe undergraduates--the people whom we serve. Greg Lyss '85, Chairperson Undergraduate Council
...BROUHAHA over remarks made by Presidential Counselor Edwin Meese 3d to the effect that poor people are pretending to be hungry to get free food narrows considerably the list of groups that the Administration has yet to insult or alienate...
Holding the referendum at all is an insult to the hundreds of undergraduates who paid $10 to fund a body elected to make such decisions for them. Governing by referenda is in general an unwieldy process, not only because it takes up time and money, but because it does not allow for technical debate or amendment. Open votes are justified mainly if constituents feel their government is not willing to act according to their wishes--such as the Nuclear Free Cambridge and Rent Control questions on the municipal ballot this fall. Hardly the case with the vote. If the council...
...member "psychological operations" group; some have been ripped down by islanders. Although the "psy ops" tacticians have wisely avoided attacks on the late and locally lamented Prime Minister Bishop, their campaign may backfire anyway. A new broadside went up last weekend that struck Grenadians as an insult to their national pride and joy, the Cuban-built airport. Above pictures of Cuban weapons seized at Point Salines is the slogan ARE THESE THE TOOLS THAT BUILD CIVILIAN AIRPORTS? Army Jeeps fitted with loudspeakers cruise the island, blaring outdated propaganda ("Help send the Cubans back to Havana where they belong! Protect your...