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...force a confrontation that would hurt Kohl. So the communique signed by the ministers was a masterpiece of double-talk, reaffirming NATO's determination to maintain an up-to-date nuclear capability but setting no date for deploying the new missile. The ambiguous Brussels agreement was enough, however, to permit American Defense Secretary Dick Cheney to proceed with a two-year budget request for $150 million for research and development of a new weapon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alliance A Decision Not To Decide | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

...challenge exists. You may either permit the Raft Race to dwindle into the sort of event favored by Administrators, grandmothers and the pony-riding milquetoasts of Eliot House...or preserve the original intent of this, the last true bastion of fun at Harvard. Nothing short of House pride is at stake here. Those who do not will have to live with their sheepish unworthy selves for yet another year. We challenge you all to take to heart the motto of the Three-Time Champion Leverett House Raft Race Corps...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Survival of the Fittest | 4/25/1989 | See Source »

...petition could have some effect on several of the nine all-male final clubs, commercial properties which are in residentially zoned areas of Mt. Auburn St. Two final clubs--the Spee and the Phoenix--have received variances from city agencies in the past that permit them to house businesses in their basements...

Author: By Kirsten L. Parkinson, | Title: Group Seeks End to Variances in Residential Areas | 4/18/1989 | See Source »

...there has changed. "We have stopped using the Third World as a battleground for capitalism or socialism," says Trofimenko. The new battlefields are more economic and scientific than ideological and military. To play on those fields, the U.S.S.R. has to negotiate arms limits, pull back from regional confrontation and permit political change among its satellites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy Moscow Scales Back | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

Under terms of the pact, South Africa, which has ruled the Turkey-size territory for 74 years, agreed to permit independent elections and withdraw its 40,000 troops. That was to be done in coordination with the phased departure of 50,000 Cuban troops backing the Marxist regime in Angola, which gives sanctuary to the militant exiles of the South West African People's Organization, whose guerrilla army has been battling Pretoria's rule since 1966. The U.S.-brokered agreement was signed last December under the auspices of the U.N., which took on responsibility for policing Namibia's transition with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Namibia Botching the Peace | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

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