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Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., was one of the first to react to the bad news. A private university known for its remarkably openhanded scholarship program and diverse student body, Wesleyan announced last week that it could no longer continue "aid-blind" admissions, accepting any qualified student regardless of ability to pay. Last year Wesleyan spent $2.7 million of its own funds on scholarships; with the proposed federal budget cuts that figure would nearly double. As a result, this spring some low-income applicants, who in better times would have received letters of acceptance, may be rejected in favor...
...ability is so good that Giants Coach Ray Perkins thinks it may spell the difference between the two closely matched Super Bowl teams. And in the N.F.L., where a quarterback may face 35 or 40 different defensive patterns in a single game, Anderson's ability to decode and react in nanoseconds is legendary. One result: he is the least intercepted quarterback in the league...
...free men must react with consternation to the oppressive methods used by the Polish military government under orders from Moscow. The world can no longer permit the Soviets to deny essential freedoms in Eastern Europe even if the cost is thermonuclear war. Alexander P. Grantt Bonita Springs...
...Allen as National Security Adviser may clear up some of these confusing signals. Nonetheless, the complaints of the Europeans again highlight the difficulty of getting the allies to work in concert at times of crisis. That problem may be insoluble. "It would always be better if the West could react in solidarity and immediately to a Soviet challenge," wrote Italian Columnist Arrigo Levi in La Stampa last week. "But the West is not an empire. It is an alliance of free people that must take into account the diversity of its opinions and interests...
TIME Correspondent Richard Hornik was in Gdansk on Dec. 13 when martial law was declared. He has watched General Jaruzelski try to subdue the country and has seen the Poles react and resist. Shortly after leaving Poland last week, Hornik filed this report on what life is like in Warsaw in the wake of the crackdown...