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...ITEM: AS THE Reagan Administration's "constructive engagement" policy continues to crumble, conservatives are now scrambling to find a way to justify their clear lack of moral resolve on U.S. policy on South Africa. The latest alternative to sanctions, if a major article in the current issue of The National Interest and stirrings elsewhere on the neo-con front are any indication, is disengagement. This policy, according to author Robert B. Shepard, would proclaim total neutrality and would recognize whatever government remains in power after any expected uprising...
...Item: Though the White House yesterday finally called on Ferdinand Marcos to step down, the Reagan Administration waffled for weeks while Corazon Aquino, the most inspiring "freedom fighter" in recent memory, was cheated out of the Philippine presidency by the Marcos's sleazy shenanigans. The presidential hemming and hawing on the Philippine election, which Aquino correctly called a contest between good and evil, came during a new Administration initiative to funnel aid to two dubious movements: the Contras in Nicaragua and Jonas Savimbi's South Africa-backed rebels in Angola...
...theory at least, the sweatshirts are loaned, not given to the athletes. With every sweat item comes a notice which reads, in part: "Equipment charged out to a student by the Department of Athletics which has not been returned for credit within seven days after the end of the sport season for which it was issued... will be charged to the student on his next term bill...
Students at Brown University this week made 10 mock graves complete with tombstones, moss, and flowers in preparation for this weekend's meeting of Brown's governing boards. The trustees' main agenda item: should the University divest...
...agency named an interim investigative panel to take charge of the search and called upon two aircraft "crash detectives" from the National Transportation Safety Board - for help. The NTSB experts, more experienced than the space agency in reconstructing accidents, will assist in building a "fault tree": a split- second, item-by-item analysis of the flight's progress, as portrayed by telemetry, voice recordings, eyewitnesses, photographs and videotape. With NASA and industry engineers, the NTSB investigators, like paleontologists trying to reconstruct a dinosaur, will piece together every available scrap of Challenger debris--the same procedure they follow in investigating...