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...Senator Laxalt brought a letter from President Reagan which contains his concern about the present situation in the Philippines, principally the insurgency problem. I outlined to him what we have done and what we intend to do, including the increase in the appropriations of the armed forces. We have now changed the policy of keeping to ourselves all the matters that have to do with operations against the Communists. Our troops are highly trained now. (The rebels) are bleeding very badly. We have been driving them from pillar to post...
...also said he favored the ACSR's present structure, and did not, on the whole, intend to adopt the council's recommendation of requiring elections to make the members accountable to the contituencies from which they are chosen...
...argument for permissiveness toward pornography has always been "freedom of speech." But how can pictorial and literary depiction of women (and increasingly men) in degrading sexual terms be perceived as "freedom of speech"? There is no doubt that the authors of the Bill of Rights did not intend the First Amendment's speech protection to extend to pornography, and for a very simple reason: Pornography adds nothing to a healthy diversity of political, cultural, and social life in the United States, which is the core intent of the First Amendment. And nothing since the 18th century, including the great post...
GLSA members plan to distribute a campuswide mailing this year explaining the new clause in the University's anti-discrimination policy guaranteeing the rights of homosexuals in the Harvard community. They also intend to organize gay tables in various houses, to support Contact, the gay crisis phoneline, and most importantly, to sponsor a major AIDS benefit in the spring...
...does not mind so much if property values get depressed. "We intend to live here until we die," Tompkins says. "But the poor people in town, all they have are their homes." Rather, his fear is that waste chemicals might percolate through the ground into his cattle's drinking water. "If that stuff ever gets into the water, we're through." As for the odor, it burns his sinuses and gives him headaches. "If you see a lot of trucks come in," says Tompkins, who lives close to the dump entrance, "you can pretty well bet there...