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...Earlier in the week Bush approved a robust arms package for Taiwan, including destroyers, antisubmarine aircraft and diesel-powered submarines, to counter a possible sea blockade by the mainland. But he turned down the most controversial request, for ships equipped with the advanced Aegis battle management radar. Although it was the biggest sale in years, Beijing's outrage displayed somewhat less bellicosity than it is capable of mustering. Bush, however, indicated that he might okay a future Aegis sale unless Beijing reduced its batteries of short-range ballistic missiles aimed at Taiwan. Although a few right-wing critics, already angry...
...Late in the year, a new name appeared on the committee's radar screen. Amy Gutmann `71, a respected Princeton professor, former dean of the faculty and founder of that university's Center for Human Values was a young, incredibly accomplished woman, She struck the committee as a revolutionary choice. Her work on ethics and human values had impacted undergraduates, and she had begun a series of freshman seminars similar to the program at Harvard that the committee thought warranted expansion...
...enough to be caught in the middle. Charts of coca production and the violence that goes along with it--kidnappings, massacres, executions--look like a NASDAQ chart from 1998. The jungles of Colombia and Peru and Bolivia are dotted with the paraphernalia buttressing a shadowy and bloody war: American radar systems, air bases and special-operations training units...
Wahlberg rebounded from the crushing loss in emphatic fashion yesterday. He had decent control all afternoon-the radar gun at Fenway had his fastball in the low nineties, and he struck out five in six innings. He allowed only two earned runs, and only really began to show signs of collapse after senior John O’Donnell lost a ball in the sun in the bottom of the sixth, prompting a UMass rally...
...Europeans recognize the inevitability of Washington proceeding with missile defense, but they'll do their utmost to ensure that the U.S. reaches an understanding with Russia over the issue and preserves the existing arms-control framework in some form. Missile defense requires the upgrading of U.S. radar facilities in Britain and Denmark, and those countries are unlikely to stand in Washington's way despite the negative reaction to the scheme in European public opinion...