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While unsolved water seepage problems continue to keep the Radcliffe Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center (Q-RAC) closed. Quad residents are not letting themselves get flabby. As partial compensation for the loss of their nearby gym, students in Currie: North, and South Houses this week moved the Q-RAC's exercise equipment to House basements and set up temporary weight rooms. As for the fate of the three-year-old. $2.4 million facility. President Horner said she is still waiting for a consultant's report on the damage, which she wants in hand before deciding when--or whether--to reopen...
...wheel-shaped building, is a mostly light-hearted show with 24 Audio-Animatronic scenes depicting such momentous occasions as the invention of the wheel and the first traffic jam. The Universe of Energy (sponsored by Exxon) is a serious but compelling presentation whose three-acre roof with a partial photovoltaic surface is probably the largest privately built solar-energy collector in the world. Inside, life-size models of dinosaurs fight to the death; there is even an erupting volcano with 7,000 gal. of simulated lava and realistic odors that turn each eruption into a smellodrama. The lava is pumped...
Those who lived through the Cuban Missile Crisis agree that it brought into better focus the danger of the U.S.-Soviet nuclear standoff. Some attribute the successful drive for the 1963 partial Test Ban Treaty to the concern aroused in October 1962. But the Caribbean confrontation did not itself produce significant new critiques of American government and foreign policy among students and professors. "Students were very little activated politically," says Adam Ulam. "The mood of Vietnam had not yet emerged, and there was nothing like the interest in political issues that came to exist...
...recent relaxation of the boycott of firms defying the sanctions is a long-overdue concession to reality. Nevertheless, the Administration's announcement still represents only the watering down of a policy that remains unacceptable. A partial boycott is as inappropriate as a full one on a question where no retaliatory measures are called for, and the obstinacy with which Reagan has pursued this issue betrays a dangerous mindset which remains unaltered. The President persists in pitting West against East and electing himself captain of a mythical team of "good guys," substituting machismo for persuasive integrity...
...Mubarak refused, saying that the removal of the P.L.O. from Lebanon should be linked with diplomatic steps toward a comprehensive settlement of the Palestinian problem. Explained an Egyptian official: "When we signed the Camp David peace treaty, we were accused by other Arabs of only being concerned about a partial solution," that is, of getting the occupied Sinai back from Israel. "We do not want the same accusations to be leveled against us again." In the end, the Egyptians agreed merely to provide medical care for some of the Palestinian wounded and to pay canal tolls for the five ships...