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...precipitously seized. On Wednesday evening, Defense Secretary John Nott warned that the Royal Navy would sink any Argentine vessel, whether warship or merchantman, that was within 200 miles of the islands after midnight Sunday. "We will shoot first," said Nott. "We will sink them, certainly within the 200-mile limit." By week's end at least four British nuclear-powered submarines, led by H.M.S. Superb, were believed to be in position to enforce the blockade. The Argentines in turn declared that they were ready to sink any hostile British ship that came within 200 miles of the mainland...
...More likely, however, this change will restrict the Collegian’s editorial independence and limit valuable leadership opportunities for CSU students. Gannett’s prior acquisition of two student papers in Florida admittedly caused little changes to the leadership structure, but those papers were already for-profit. The Collegian, on the other hand, would be more vulnerable to change: It’s hard to imagine that Gannett, beholden to its shareholders, could afford to allow independence to a newspaper whose editorials have pushed the limits of the First Amendment’s protections...
...Mass. Hall leaders who championed the break between the Medical School and HMI’s health-care consulting divisions insisted that an organization using Harvard’s name should limit its purview to education and research...
...legislation calls for the selection of students with a wide range of experience to fill the five slots—in particular, it would limit the number of current or former UC representatives...
...Merkel, the scandal could hardly have come at a worse time. Germany is already engaged in a deepening ideological battle over the bloated salaries of its top corporate executives. Socialists are calling for a statutory minimum wage, a move most conservatives oppose, as well as for a law to limit executive salaries. Many voters are angry that ordinary workers have to carry the burden of Germany's economic reforms while executives give themselves huge pay increases, and they have been flocking to an opposition party called the Left, an amalgam of the former East Germany's ruling communist party...