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Honorary degree recipients are selected by a committee appointed by the Corporation. The committee's choices, selected from a list of nominations from throughout the University a subject to approval by the Corporation and Governing Boards...
...National Endowment for Democracy, a bipartisan organization funded by Congress, which helped pay for the bookselection process, and the International Freedom to Publish Committee, a unit of the Association of American Publishers, which appointed the selectors, developed into a nasty politico-literary dustup as the NED charged that the list was philosophically "one-sided." The IFP accused the NED of would-be censorship and then announced that it would return the $12,000 it had already received from the group and refuse the remainder of the promised $50,000 unless there was a public apology...
...important thing here is the principle of the government trying to have a hand in the choosing of books for exhibition, not what books are selected." The books were supposed to reflect the diversity of opinion in America. That goal has been duly accomplished -- if not by the list, at least by the debate about...
...week's death list was evidence of the growing struggle between the island's 2.6 million Tamils and its 11 million Sinhalese. Over the past two years Tamil guerrillas have stepped up their attacks on troops in an effort to force the government into granting them an independent homeland. The Tamils claim that in the 37 years since Sri Lanka achieved independence from Britain, their political rights have been gradually eroded by the Sinhalese majority. Last week's Tamil rampage through Anuradhapura was the guerrillas' first major attack on unarmed civilians...
...Joseph Leroy, a 727 captain, says the two-tier system would bring "great dissension" because people would be getting different pay for exactly the same work. Says he: "The cockpit depends on mutual respect and trust. We cannot afford that kind of trouble." The pilots also cite a long list of wage and benefit concessions they have made over the past several years. Finally, the pilots point to the airline's 1984 operating earnings of $564 million. It was United's most profitable year ever...