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...White House official, largely match line for line the seven essential points of the sanctions bill that the Senate is to begin considering this week, but go a step further by placing an embargo on the importation of arms from South Africa. Reagan's Executive action should pre-empt Congress's almost certain passage of the sanctions bill and may thus prevent an angry clash between the White House and Capitol Hill over the issue. In South Africa, where racial violence last week spread for the first time this year to a white suburb, the President's action threatens...
...London and Washington, efforts were made to pre-empt terrorist attacks on the ground. British police launched a massive search after Scotland Yard reported that it had uncovered a plot by the outlawed Irish Republican Army to place bombs at twelve English seaside resorts. Police defused one device in a crowded hotel just 100 yds. from Buckingham Palace in London. Sixteen suspects were detained. At the U.S. State Department, officials announced plans to renovate or relocate almost half of its 262 embassies and consulates, citing vulnerability to espionage and terrorist attack as the reason for the new program, which...
...1960s, Harvard officials often treated the protests as a threat, and often negotiated in an attempt to pre-empt the protests. But today, Harvard is more tolerant. President Bok set the tone for toleration when in 1977 he said political protests at graduations fell "within (the protester's) rights to exercise their opinions...
...time 10,000 men and women of Harvard come to spill drinks and stomp all over the Yard. Viriemaire and his crew will have distributed hundreds of pounds of grass seed on the Yard in an effort to pre-empt the damage. And after the alumni have wreaked their havoc, Facilties Maintenance will return and distribute some 80 pounds of fertilizer...
...easiest riposte to such new political thought is to claim it does not exist ("Where's the beef?"). By dismissing a new notion out of hand, a critic hopes to pre-empt debate on the idea without being forced to wrestle with the merit or the substance. For longer than anyone in Washington can remember, Presidents have been confronted by frothing opponents who claim, "He has no foreign [or domestic] policy." Translated, that generally means, "I won't accept his ideas but I don't have anything of my own." Fortunately, such obfuscation does not prevail long...