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Twenty Harvard undergraduates had worked for several hours a day since the beginning of the semester to prepare for the conference which gave 122 high schoolers a chance to discuss a wide range of issues relating to South Africa and Nicaragua, said Grace Won '89, the program's coordinator...
...event is considerably smaller than the three-day Model U.N., which is held at Harvard in December. Consisting of three mock Security Councils, the Model United Nations Day allows discussion of South Africa and Nicaragua in an attempt to "give experience in Model United Nations to students who either couldn't afford to come to the larger conferences or who don't have the experience to feel comfortable with bigger groups," said David Araten '87, president of the Harvard International Relations Council, the non-partisan political forum which sponsored the conference...
Foremost in Reagan's outlook is his perception that circumstances have changed in the U.S.-Soviet rivalry. The Reagan who called the U.S.S.R. the "evil empire" and chose to challenge Communism in Grenada and Nicaragua was driven by the sting of Soviet contempt, his own sense of alarming U.S. military weakness and the need to demonstrate resolve. The Reagan who now reaches out for arms accords is convinced he is dealing from renewed strength and can afford a touch of magnanimity, or at least flexibility...
...Reagan at winning showdown foreign policy votes on Capitol Hill. Through a combination of astute compromise and skillful personal lobbying, the President has managed to persuade reluctant legislators on such hotly contested matters as sending advanced AWACS surveillance aircraft to Saudi Arabia and aid to the contra guerrillas in Nicaragua. But ) last week Reagan's fabled reserves of luck and persuasion finally ran out. Both houses of Congress voted decisively to override his veto of a bill calling for stiff economic sanctions against South Africa...
About 200 University of Massachusetts students Thursday engaged in a shouting match during a rally at the Amherst campus to support an American captured when Sandinista troops shot down a contra supply plane in Nicaragua, the Associated Press reported...