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...quietly making a comeback by mediating settlements in such trouble spots as Namibia and Angola. In the gulf crisis it has functioned at long last as its creators hoped it would 45 years ago, focusing world condemnation on an aggressor, authorizing a global embargo and even voting to permit the use of force to back up that squeeze. The Bush Administration would like to make the U.N. a cornerstone of its plans to construct a New World Order. The U.N. will continue to be effective, however, only so long as no proposed action runs counter to the interests...
...Tokyo would be only about an hour away by air -- if international flights were allowed to land here. But Vladivostok is home to the Soviet Pacific fleet, and the naval high command is more concerned with keeping out spies than with $ letting in businessmen -- or any other foreigners. To permit last week's conference, Shevardnadze had to enlist Mikhail Gorbachev's help in overruling the Ministry of Defense...
...search committee's intention to complete its work by late winter or early spring in order to permit the new president to assume office in July," the committee said...
...were to go to court they may determine that the permit was issued in error and Harvard might have to send some steel beams back," he added...
...knowledge there is no violation," said Harvard Director of Planning Kathy A. Spiegelman. "We believe it complies with the zoning ordinances and [the city] agreed when it issued the building permit...