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...make choices about whose speech or what speech we wish to sanction, I urge the Black Students Association to reconsider their invitation to Leonard Jeffries. Refusing Jeffries a forum on campus would not deny his right to openly articulate his beliefs, but offering him a Harvard podium will lend his hate speech a degree of credibility that threatens every individual who has suffered discrimination...
Sheik Jaber is not only determined to punish his enemies; he is also reluctant to trust his friends. Egypt and Syria offered to lend ground troops as a deterrent against the threat of future Iraqi aggression in exchange for billions of dollars in economic aid. But Kuwait wants no Arab soldiers stationed on its soil. Instead, the Kuwaitis are almost totally reliant on the ! U.S. for protection. They had hoped American troops would stay, but have contented themselves with a 10-year security agreement allowing the U.S. to maintain weapons and conduct military exercises in Kuwait...
...talks with the putsch leaders last week, he offered his help in getting democratic reform back on track. He publicly praised the takeover as a "democratic revolution" and promised "to devote all my energy to starting a movement of international support for building a democratic Georgia." Shevardnadze would certainly lend any post-Gamsakhurdia leadership the kind of authority it needs in the West. But the veteran diplomat suffers from one major handicap: he may be too closely identified with the Kremlin to suit his intensely nationalistic compatriots...
While pheasant may lend itself to more exotic and flavorful culinary adventures than chicken does, it also costs a lot more: about $4 per lb., vs. $1.25. Saglio hopes to cut the price by boosting efficiency and raising larger numbers. Last fall he shipped about 25,000 birds, many of which ended up as holiday dinners. The main difficulty in raising pheasants, he says, is their individualistic nature and their tendency to attack one another...
...Money: Since the republics are not in fact members, the IMF will not be able to lend directly to them. Instead, it must rely on western governments to do so. At the same time, preparations for full membership should move forward...A plausible financial package to back the Russian programme should be set as follows: Russia will need a stabilisation fund of around $5 billion to help peg the newly convertible rouble...In addition, Russia should receive in 1992 around $6 billion of general balance-of-payments support, and another $6 billion of food...