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...graduate of the Law School placed partial blame for the deficit on the Marshall Plan. "We chose to help our enemies and allies to rebuild their economy [after World War II]. Europe and Japan ended up with industries more modern and more productive than their American counterparts," Brophy said...
...Soviet give on any of these matters: the best one can predict is a "long, tough discussion." Reagan's advisers are convinced the Soviets do not appreciate how seriously the U.S. takes human rights, and think they need to hear the American position directly from Reagan. With the partial exception of INF, a mere listing of the positions of the two sides on the agenda's main items could lead to bleak predictions for success. But the great imponderable is the extent to which the two leaders, talking face to face, can find the compromises that have so far eluded...
Although pagers can provide tone or voice messages, many drug merchants prefer the digital version that displays a caller's return telephone number. They are also partial to pagers that vibrate silently rather than giving off an audible signal. Dealers sometimes use fronts to sign with a paging service to thwart easy tracing. But not always: "We do get some strange or spooky clients in here," says one Miami beeper salesman. "I've never seen so many people who didn't have driver's licenses, even though I just saw them drive up in a Mercedes...
...University's action represents a "partialvictory [for the movement] because they don't wantto say they're doing it [divesting]. Obviouslyit's a first step in what they will inevitablydo," Brugge said. "This partial divestmentreinforces our notion that we have a chance ofwinning full divestment...
...Southern Africa Solidarity Committee(SASC), the student divestment group, issued astatement yesterday which called for continuedprotests. "Harvard's divestment of $160 million isa partial victory for the generations of studentswho have with rallies, sit-ins and shantiesdemanded that their University cut all ties withapartheid. But our work is not yet done ...Administrators still believe that it is possibleto invest responsibly in South Africa," thestatement read...