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Some of the laws are ambiguous, but state election officials interpret them in ways that hamper Anderson's campaign, Tribe said, adding that this may indicate officials' personal feelings towards Anderson or their allegiance to the major parties...
...problem, according to minority student members of the committee, is that whites perceive separatism when minority students gather together in groups. As one white student told the committee at an open meeting in 1977, "Whites interpret Black tables and Blacks sitting together as a sign of their antagonism, but they never question the whites all sitting together." Eugene Matthews '80, one of the committee members, said this week the report shows that "perceptions are a large part of the problem." Students who share interests sit together, Matthews said...
...before he went overseas. He began writing regularly but said nothing about marriage. Keke eventually wrote that she was about to marry someone else, which was not true. Says she now: "It was a little innocent blackmail." Anderson cabled, KEKE WOULD YOU STILL COME TO ME? Shewired back, DARLING INTERPRET WORDS AS PROPOSAL, and asked him to sendmoney. He did. Keke today is an ebullient woman of 48 who pinches and flirts with Anderson, advises him on everything from how to comb his hair to political strategy-she really persuaded him to run -and works crowds...
...Supernukes. Under new Nuclear Regulatory Commission rules, utilities are permanently assigning an additional expert to each shift to serve as technical adviser or supernuke, in operator lingo. The adviser is supposed to be kept free of all routine duties so that he can monitor safety indicators and help operators interpret plant conditions. Says Jim Toscas, the nuclear training supervisor for Commonwealth Edison in Illinois: "The objective is for the adviser to be so well rounded he can't be snowed by anybody in the plant...
...Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, who won wide acclaim for his deft performance as conference chairman. Though all delegations were monitored, Campbell wrote, particular attention was paid to Patriotic Front Co-Leaders Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe; Rhodesian security personnel were even employed to interpret African languages and dialects. Campbell further claimed that U.S. agents had bugged "critical meetings" attended by the Front's delegates to last September's Nonaligned Conference in Havana and passed the information on to Britain...