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...after hours of debate, the House could not decide whether Congress + should reserve to itself the right to approve the commission's list of bases or just the right to reject it. Apparently paralyzed by this weighty question of national defense, the House recessed for the weekend without taking action...
Bryers said last night that he had expected theadministration to make the announcement tomorrowor Thursday. Although he did not know ifThornburgh had been offered the post, Bryers saidthat "he's obviously on a very short list...
...word document (the elephantine 1984 version was 40,000 words) signals a sharp break with the party's promise- them-anything past. This time there are no bold pledges to match earlier advocacy of guaranteed jobs (1972) and national health insurance (1980). Gone too is the usual laundry list of narrow causes like the 1984 vow to "eliminate ethnic stereotyping." The 1988 platform may be purposely vague, but there are hidden subtexts beneath the soporific rhetoric...
Some things never change, such as the Democrats' compulsion to list in encylopedic detail all the forms of bias they abhor. A safe bet: the social- science buzz word multicultural will not appear in the G.O.P. platform...
Once the black and crimson acceptance papersare mailed, the office waits for the May 1responses before deciding on admitting studentsfrom the wait lists. Some years no one gets in offthe wait list at all, but usually there are a fewstudents who, once deferred, gain acceptance in asecond round of admissions conferences...