Word: latters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan Administration is more realistic as far as the threat of the Soviet Union is concerned. The South African government is absolutely committed to a peaceful solution in Namibia and is conscious of the benefits that would flow from an internationally acceptable solution. To achieve the latter and yet not to bring peace and stability would be a disaster. We are making that distinction quite clear to the U.S. Government. The Soviet Union is not interested in a peaceful solution. We are not prepared, for the rest of history, to be blamed for destroying a country. My government...
...civic ethics has roots in Talmudic law; her images of evil spring from Jewish folklore and mysticism. These influences get their longest airing in a novella with the intimidating title Puttermesser and Xanthippe. The former is a lawyer in New York's department of receipts and disbursements; the latter a female golem, an artificial being that Puttermesser fashioned from potting soil. With Xanthippe's aid, the civil ser vant becomes mayor and turns the city into a Utopia. Unfortunately, it is the nature of golems to turn against their creators. Xanthippe plays a succubus, sleeps with every...
Harvard swimming coach Vicki Hays feels that Ivy championships in the past years have been somewhat of a detour on the route to Easterns and Nationals. It is the swimmers' times that qualify them for these latter, much-anticipated events, regardless of how they place in the Ivies Eliminating the tournament for Hays and her charges means "one less meet to prepare for, both mentally and physically...
...energy. Doomsday scenarios pervaded French publications of the last two weeks. One, in L'Express, entitled "Suddenly in the Summer of 1986," saw the Soviets entering East Germany to crush a popular anti-communist uprising. In retaliation the alliance--miraculously united--boycotts all trade with the U.S.S.R. The latter then curtails the flow of natural gas to Western Europe, whose economies suffer crippling bolws. One can easily fill in the rest of the apocalypse...
...options in case federal cuts make it impossible to maintain the present aid-blind policy, drew a distinction between Wesleyan's decision to reject students asking for aid--without giving them the chance to try to find alternate ways of paying tuition--and the "admit-deny" option. Under the latter, which Jewett said he probably would favor, a student would be told he qualified for admission on merit grounds but that the college couldn't afford to give...