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Almost 540 Harvard students last year received Pell grants, which the House bill targets for the largest funding increases. The legislation would increase the average Pell grant, which is provided to low-income students, from $2100 to $2300. Special programs that encourage minorities to attend colleges and universities would also be big beneficiaries of the legislation...
...brink of voting on a bill that would halt the reflagging. But after a lengthy conference with Assistant Secretary of State Richard Murphy, the panel decided to delay the vote until this week. "We need a few more days to think about it," said Chairman Claiborne Pell, a Rhode Island Democrat...
Forty years later, one cannot be forgiven. What exactly do Pell, Dukakis and the Democrats have in mind? Perhaps they think of the U.N. as some independent world actor. Jeane Kirkpatrick, who spent some time there, had a crisper view. She called it a "Turkish bath" where the Third World can let off steam, denounce the West, air resentments and demand transfers of wealth. Its principal achievement is to generate a billion pages of paper every year. This U.N. is not even able to field peacekeeping forces in precisely the areas, like the Sinai, where they are most needed. When...
What about the Security Council? If Pell really wants the Security Council to protect the gulf, what he means is for the U.S., Britain, France, China and the Soviet Union to act together. But this is absurd. China, for example, is supplying Iran with the very missiles it would use to target any peacekeeping flotilla. And even if united action were possible, it would not be desirable. What the "U.N. route" really means, after all the disguises are removed, is that the U.S. should act in the gulf only with the permission not just of allies but also...
...thus the rewards, of controlling the Persian Gulf would amount to the most astonishing voluntary abdication of a Western position in the postwar world. At least when the British ran out on their responsibilities in the gulf in 1971, they turned it over to an ally. But now Pell and others would like to offer the Soviets, who have been lusting for the gulf since Romanov days, a share of it. Gratis...