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...political mano a mano pitted Suárez, 47, against Socialist Party Leader Felipe González, 38, who had the temerity to lodge an outright censure motion against a Spanish government for the first time in 44 years. He came far closer to toppling Suárez than even he expected. Although the censure motion was narrowly defeated, by a vote of 166 to 152, the premier was reduced to the support of his own party, the Union of the Democratic Center, by wholesale abstention in the rest of his coalition...
Washington repeated its offer to send U.S. ships and airplanes to Cuba to pick up refugees if Castro agreed to let U.S. officials screen the would-be exiles. Havana rejected the proposal-but not outright. In a front-page editorial in the official newspaper Granma, Cuba expressed its willingness to discuss the "isolated" problem of the refugees if Washington agreed to talk about other issues such as the U.S. economic blockade and the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo. The relatively mild language led Washington to believe that although Castro is not in any real trouble, he may have begun...
...Outright insurrection raises alarm about an invaluable Pacific ally...
...imaginative force and outright terribilità, it is quite possibly the most crushing and exhilarating exhibition of work by a 20th century artist ever held in the U.S. Beginning this week, over the next four months nearly a million people will queue outside New York City's Museum of Modern Art to get a glimpse of it. Pablo Picasso, who died in 1973, is being honored in a show of nearly 1,000 of his works, some never exhibited before, drawn from his estate as well as from collections the world over...
...wrong about what HIID does, Harvard should shut the Institute down together with those other few activities of the University that represent an outright institutional intervention in politics. What could be the appropriate process for appointing HIID's director and staff? The best that can be expected is that if right- or left-wing people are chosen, their political adversaries will raise hell and try to rouse the vast, annoyed center from its torpor. This is actually what happened in the Harberger case. But it has its disadvantages: the confusion about academic freedom that it produces, the unavoidability of enthroning...