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Second, Heiskell's ill-considered rebuff preempted a constructive response on the part of the Corporation. And finally, his remark that the Corporation would not "meet with anybody who wants to meet" not only was an insult to the groups that requested a meeting--among them the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee, the Undergraduate Council, the Radcliffe Union of Students and the Endowment for Divestiture--but also indicates how little interest the Corporation has in input from the community...
...Managua the Sandinistas announced they would try Hasenfus in a political tribunal scheduled to begin this week. Charged with violating laws guaranteeing order and public security, he could face 30 years in prison. The announcement was a rebuff to U.S. officials who have dismissed the Anti- Somocista People's Tribunals, as they are formally known, as kangaroo courts. According to the America's Watch Committee, a New York City-based human rights group, just one of the 559 defendants who came before the tribunals in 1985 was acquitted...
...Liberals thus rejected a painfully crafted compromise between Steel and their alliance partners, the Social Democrats, advocating a continued role for Britain's independent nuclear force. The rebuff could not be overlooked by the Social Democrats, whose party was founded five years ago by former Labor Party members, largely because of their opposition to Labor's call for unilateral disarmament. Social Democratic Leader David Owen said he was shocked by the vote, which he called a "very serious blow." Steel admitted that the outcome of the vote was nothing less than a "breathtaking misjudgment." With the two parties split...
While some experts are worried that the military has become too dependent on the Guard, the nation's Governors fret about losing control of the troops they like to think of as their own. More than half-a-dozen Governors have said they would rebuff Pentagon calls for Guardsmen to serve along the Honduran-Nicaraguan border. Some, like Maine's Joseph Brennan and Arizona's Bruce Babbitt, are reluctant to help the Reagan Administration in its support of the contras. Most of the reservations, however, arise from the Governors' determination to retain full authority to use the Guard in such...
Michael Deaver was on safari in Kenya last week. But back inside the Beltway in Washington, he was the hunted, not the hunter. In a rebuff to the former White House aide, a House panel voted 17 to 0 to recommend that the independent counsel investigating Deaver's lobbying activities examine charges that he committed perjury in his May testimony before the subcommittee...