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...Young committee said the report would increase voter participation and interest in elections to the Board. But critics charge that the report is a thinly veiled attempt to quash the agenda of pro-divestment alumni seeking to influence Harvard through Overseers elections...
...avoid military defeat. Earlier this month the regime's forces lost two provincial capitals in the northeast: Taliqan, a relatively insignificant small city, and Kunduz, a strategic strong point. Though Afghan troops, supported by Soviet air power, subsequently recaptured Kunduz, Moscow apparently regarded the setbacks as serious enough to quash earlier suggestions that the 50,000 troops still in Afghanistan might be home by the end of the year, well ahead of the Feb. 15, 1989, deadline established under the Geneva accords signed by Afghanistan, the Soviet Union, Pakistan and the U.S. Said Soviet Foreign Ministry Spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov...
...Boston news conference, Dukakis tried to quash the rumors once and for all. "I've never gotten any professional counseling," the Governor said. "I normally look to my family for support when I need it." Dukakis also seized the opportunity to rise magnanimously above Reagan. "We all occasionally misspeak," he said. "I don't really think the President had to apologize." Gerald Plotkin, Dukakis' doctor since 1971, released a detailed three-page report pronouncing Dukakis "in excellent health and physical shape." Wrote Plotkin: "He has had no psychological symptoms, complaints or treatment." Before the week ended, Dukakis set aside...
...MANDATE to inculcate moral and political values," Justice William Brennan Jr. points out, "is not a general warrant to act as thought police." The lesson was lost on the majority of Brennan's Supreme Court colleagues, who last week effectively deputized the nation's high school administrators to quash the expression of whatever opinions they deem objectionable. The opinion may well be used to justify censorship of student newspapers and journals in state universities. It mocks--or perhaps reveals--what passes for the nation's historic commitment to free speech...
...Congress included a provision in the new budget law that permits the rifles to be imported but also gives the Administration 20 days to quash the deal. By Jan. 12 the Treasury must decide whether gun buffs can add the M-1s to their collections...