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DIED. GRAYSON KIRK, 94, imperious former president of Columbia University; in Bronxville, N.Y. After he was appointed in 1953, the university's endowments quadrupled. For all his financial acumen, Kirk grossly miscalculated, when he called in 1,000 police in 1968 to quell antiwar protests. Hundreds of students were arrested and dozens injured...
AUGUST The massacres grow more virulent, and so do the army's bloody attempts to quell them. The toll rises by 746: nearly 80 villagers are butchered on the 2nd, more than 100 on the 5th, 40 on the 10th, 15 on the 16th, nine on the 18th, 64 on the 22nd, 38 on the 24th, 100 on the 26th, up to 300 on the 29th in the worst killing spree...
However, if the Administration still feared that undergraduates might succumb to the unnatural urge to socialize even after such an exhausting day, they could simultaneously ban all halogen lamps (making themselves happy) and open all libraries 24 hours a day (making students happy). That should quell any fears of too much social activity...
Though Karadzic was able to block Plavsic from taking over more police stations last week, U.S. officials believe NATO has enough firepower to quell armed opposition from Pale while she gradually extends her control. The greater danger will be what Washington ends up with if Plavsic succeeds. She may be as obstreperous as her Pale rivals on the treaty's two most contentious provisions: the return of Muslim refugees to their homes and the extradition of indicted war criminals. But Washington is far behind in achieving the treaty's goal of a unified Bosnia before U.S. peacekeepers are scheduled...
...emissions. In an abrupt about-face from his recent support for tough domestic clean air regulations, Clinton's most substantial pledge was to supply developing countries with $1 billion over the next five years to help reduce carbon dioxide emissions. No better than "using a squirt gun to quell a raging fire," snipped Sierra Club President Adam Werbach. "With the whole world watching, the president of the world's biggest polluter needs to do more than warn of the dire consequences of global warming." Even though the President did promise to come up with a "realistic" U.S. plan to slash...