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...with their own past policies. The three main opposition leaders, former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, former Premier Raymond Barre and Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, have all kept silent on the subject. Yvon Blot, spokesman for the neo-Gaullist party, speculated that Mitterrand's "bizarre" outburst was meant mainly for home consumption, as a ploy to retain the support of Communists and left-wing Socialists. After all, said Blot, "Reagan has merely recognized the fact that France, because of its colonial past, should play a leading role in Africa...
...challenger selection continued in its fourth round, Australia had compiled a record of 42 wins and only five defeats. Its closest competitor, Victory '83 (30-17), finally did manage to beat Australia II in one race last week by a surprising 2 min. 50 sec., provoking an outburst from Dennis Conner, skipper of Liberty, the leading American boat. He charged that the Aussies were "sandbagging" (deliberately losing) to take the limelight off their disputed keel...
...toys and puzzles in front of Lewis' mirror. The parents left, first individually, then together. The girls resorted to playing with each other. Then a stranger entered, and that seemed to make the girls more sharply aware of their parents' absence and their own aloneness-hence the outburst of tears. But why is that "great" or "fantastic"? "We're trying to determine exactly what normal behavior is," says Lewis, who sees the large in the small, "in this case the child's developing sense of self, the sense that it is separate from other people...
Minority issues also flared up at the Law School last year where minority students protested the small number of minority faculty members. The first, and most publicized outburst came when Black law students group decided to boycott a civil rights course taught by two prominent civil rights professors chagrin that the course should be led by a tenture-track minority professor And in the spring 40 students staged a demonstration outside the deans office to demand that the University hire a Black Law professor passed over by the school's tenure committee...
...peace from a relatively quiet year in campus race relations was disturbed last May when students picketed the Freshman Dean's Office, protesting the decision to with draw University support for minority and women's activities during Freshman Week But while the immediate issue sparking the outburst was the events it soon became clear that broader issues lay under the surface. The demonstrations led to more general complaints about University policy such as the veto of the Third World Center, and insufficient minority professors and administrators which add up to a feeling on the part of some minority students that...