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...higher education, the jousting over student loans provoked the loudest protests from college spokesmen, and the final proposals may hurt more than 800,000 students nationwide. Meanwhile, the clamor in Harvard's financial aid office has all but ceased. New family income restrictions will, in fact, be considerably more lenient than expected for students attending expensive Ivy League schools, and the cuts will not keep anyone out of the University this year or next [see sidebar...
Such grave worries aside, it remains to be seen how the Reagan Administration will put into effect its new nuclear-policy guidelines. As Senator Glenn has noted, "Based on this policy, the Administration could be a tough opponent of proliferation, and it could be a more lenient one." The challenge for the White House will be to use its rules to aid mankind with the atom while limiting the proliferation of nuclear weapons, which, warn scientists and politicians alike, will lead to disaster...
...relatively lenient sentences, handed down by a five-judge panel, drew harsh reactions beyond the courtroom, since they fell far short of what prosecutors had asked for: life imprisonment for four of the defendants and jail terms of between five and ten years for three others. Heinz Galinski, a Jewish spokesman in West Berlin, described the sentences as "an insult to all victims of the National Socialist regime." Even West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt told a group of Israelis who had formerly lived in West Germany that he found himself in "complete understanding" with the victims' relatives...
...more than 20 years to life. At Chapman's sentencing on Aug. 24, Marks plans to use the testimony of two psychiatrists and one psychologist-as well as his defendant's God-given plea-to argue that Chapman is insane and thus should be given the most lenient sentence...
Even within the system that they profess to despise, the youngsters have their sympathizers. Says Hans-Jochen Vogel, 55, the former S.P.D. mayor of West Berlin whose lenient approach to local housing squatters did nothing to endear him to already disenchanted voters in last May's local election: "There is definitely a youth protest that has spread all over. The real problem is understanding the motivation behind the movement. I see a lack of credibility among the young toward politicians and all things political, a feeling that too much of their life is administered for them...