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...Harvard undergraduate has lodged a criminal complaint of assault and battery against a School of Public Health (SPH) associate professor who the student claims punched him in the mouth Friday morning cutting his lip...
...pursue: South African delegates were booted from the General Assembly in 1981 for "not representing a majority of South Africans," and the apartheid regime has been the target of richly deserved economic and political sanctions since the early 1960s. But most nations have proved unwilling to pay more than lip service to sanctions, and more than $20 billion worth of goods quietly cross South Africa's borders every year...
...campaign supporters were far-right special-interest groups, particularly antiabortion activists. Yet the Reagan Administration has worked only halfheartedly in Congress for laws that would permit organized school prayer, stop busing and ban abortion, and none of that social agenda has been passed. Still, the President periodically pays lip service to the right wing's priority issues...
...Wednesday's Child on KOCO in Oklahoma City. "I make the child's handicaps very clear but highlight the positive features." In Washington, a ten-year-old boy was riding his bicycle for the cameras of WRC's The Forgotten Children when he fell, cutting his lip and chipping a tooth. The boy's social worker started to run to him, but Reporter-Producer Kelly Burke waved her off and conducted an interview beside the fallen bike. "He never cried and he stayed calm," says Burke. "It showed the strength of this child and his willingness...
...answer is that Reagan's policy does not rely upon the logic of deterrence (though he may still pay lip-service to it). The argument could be called "thinking the unthinkable." In the event of nuclear attack, so the argument goes, to respond by attacking population centers would only leave both countries devastated. Therefore, the United States should be prepared to respond to Soviet attack by knocking out the Soviet's missiles, and thereby halting the assault in its tracks...