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David A. Hamburg director of the inter-faculty Division of Health Policy Research and Education, will assume the new chair, which was established in 1981 with a $1.2 million gift from the MacArthur Foundation of Chicago...
...Argentine diplomat declared that the U.S. mediation effort was "suspended" and that his country was "technically at war" with Britain. Costa Méndez took his case to a Washington meeting of foreign ministers of the Organization of American States. There Argentina intended to invoke the 1947 Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, to which the U.S. is a party. That pact, also known as the Treaty of Rio, stipulates that an armed attack against any one of the signatories will be considered an attack against them all and provides for various sanctions against the aggressor...
Under Haiti's 1948 Penal Code, no group of more than 20 people can be formed without government permission. Some of the conclusions of a 1978 visit to Haiti of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights have been published in Amnesty International's 1981 report and are consistent with Amnesty's findings on Haiti...
Opposition in Congress to the resumption of aid appears to be fairly strong. Representative Michael D. Barnes (D.-Md.), chairman of a House committee on inter-American affairs, said an "informal agreement" exists with the Administration that would permit Congress to exercise "what amounts to a veto" on any change in U.S. policy toward Guatemala...
Kach vigilante squads have smashed cars belonging to Arabs, broken into their homes and beaten up res idents. Kahane openly applauds vandalism against Christian and Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem. Kach members are believed to have daubed swastikas and smeared excrement on the Inter national Christian Embassy, a pro-Israeli organization, and to have damaged cars belonging to U.N. personnel...