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Minority students are also treated a little differently, though they don't get the same kind of outright preference that an alumnus' child receives. There are no quotas or target figures, though officials keep a close count on the number of minority students in the class...
...Israeli economic experts was summoned to Washington to discuss an aid package of military support, grants and economic assistance whose price tag has risen from $2.5 billion to $3.25 billion. One State Department official had no hesitation in characterizing this sum-most of it in the form of an outright grant that Israel will not have to repay-as a "reward" for the new peace agreement. Of the additional $750 million, U.S. officials reckon that $250 million will cover cost increases for military hardware, $150 million will be used to dismantle Israel's old defense lines in the Sinai...
Last week the scandal provoked the first outright protest against Pinochet's increasingly personal dictatorship. Four thousand people, including three bishops and 30 priests, crushed into Santiago's Lourdes Basilica to pray for the missing persons and their families. With all political meetings outlawed, a religious service is virtually the only form of assembly permitted in Chile...
...foreign payments. If the company and the agency cannot agree-and Lockheed's statement would seem to leave little room for compromise-the SEC could hale Lockheed into federal court on charges of violating the agency's financial reporting requirements. Generally speaking, foreign political payments-or even outright bribery-do not violate any U.S. law, but concealing them on a corporation's books does. In addition, of course, the payments might violate laws of the countries where they were made...
Agee spent three years in Ecuador, between 1960 and 1963, learning the ropes of "clandestine activity." These were the years of the Cuban Revolution, when the United States did everything in its power, short of an outright declaration of war, to stop Castro and the socialist state he desired...