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...applied his supply-side tenets to the country's social programs--and this ideology has failed as badly as it did with the nation's economy. Reagan has reversed the strides taken in the 1960s--showing utter indifference to the struggles Blacks and other minorities have undergone to obtain even limited access to consitutional rights...
...East Germany, authorities continued a campaign of harassment aimed at would-be emigrants, many of whom have sought assistance from Protestant church groups in their efforts to obtain exit visas. At least 100 such individuals have been arrested, according to church officials. Last Sunday police surrounded East Berlin's Sophienkirche, one of the city's largest churches, subjecting worshipers to intimidating identity checks. The new crackdown follows a drive in January in which some dissidents were "exiled" to West Germany as punishment. Officials have evidently decided that the sweet prospect of such punishment merely encouraged the estimated 50,000 would...
...names on the list are purely suggestions, and Jewett has written to all members of the Cabot House Senior Common Room and other house masters to obtain feedback and names of other potential candidates for the Cabot post, Dingman said...
Krug said Reagan did not trust the American public with information and charged that his Administration has tried to limit the Freedom of Information Act, which gives citizens the right to obtain a wide variety of government documents, including many controversial ones...
Volunteers at the South Shore Women's Center,an abuse-prevention agency located in PlymouthCenter, will accompany battered women to court tohelp them obtain court orders against theirabusers, Mani said. Students will also be trainedto speak to small community groups on issues ofdomestic violence...