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...addition to heading the six-million member Zulu tribe, Buthelezi is the president of Inkatha, said to be South Africa's largest Black political party. He opposes divestment and sanction against the South African government and thinks that the Blacks can use peaceful means to obtain a proportioning of power by all races in his native land...

Author: By Jonathan S. Leff, | Title: B.U. Students Protest Zulu's Honorary Degree | 11/18/1986 | See Source »

...Lesbian Students Association feels that any university administration should consider the needs and concerns of students at every level of decision-making. However, we are also aware that at Harvard this ideal is not always reached. It has taken many long years of struggle with the Harvard administration to obtain a University policy of non-discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation that defends our basic rights as members of the University community...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Corporation Meeting | 11/12/1986 | See Source »

...also agreed to help Honduras upgrade its existing squadron of a dozen French Super Mystere fighter jets, half of which are in disrepair. Even without the Kfir jets, Honduras enjoys air superiority over neighboring Nicaragua, and the U.S. decision is likely to make the Sandinistas more eager to obtain MiG-21s from the Soviet Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Military: Aid Jets for a Friend | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

...committee's October fete met with fargreater response than planners estimated. Capacityfor the earlier dance, which culminated a week of350th celebrations, had to be expanded from 3500students to 4500 after students complained thatthey could not obtain tickets...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: The Dance Before The Game | 11/7/1986 | See Source »

Nonetheless, even Middle Americans whose salaries put them squarely in the middle class feel they are slipping below a comfortable standard of living. The material rewards that Middle Americans had begun to take for granted -- a house, vacations, college for the children -- have become more difficult to obtain. The heyday of the U.S. middle class, and its high expectations, came in the 1950s and 1960s, when the median U.S. family income -- adjusted to today's price levels -- leaped from $14,832 in 1950 to $27,338 in 1970 (see chart). But the prosperity spiral was halted by the inflation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is the Middle Class Shrinking? | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

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