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After what Secretary to the Faculty John R. Marquand called "a very thorough discussion" over two meetings, the Council voted with one abstention to recommend the reimbursement to the Faculty...
...power sharing between the right-wing government and leftist guerrillas in El Salvador. Said Maryland Congressman Michael Barnes, one of eleven legislators and foreign policy experts who participated in the commission's debates as "senior advisers," though not voting members: "The central thrust of this report is to recommend military solutions for the region and to deny the viability of political ones...
...wonders in the end why they don't go away-little tyrants, grand tyrants-all repeating themselves from year to year, reaching the same unimaginative decision about obliterating their impediments. The idea has simplicity to recommend it. "Nothing will come of nothing," King Lear told one of his daughters. He was wrong, of course. Everything comes of nothing in King Lear, as it tends to elsewhere, Argentina included. Technically the desaparecidos are nothing; the conscience and resolve of the new administration are nothing. Because of such nothings, former President Bignone is in prison this week...
...short, for legislation, on both the state and federal level, to remove the remaining blemishes on legal equality. To this end, he has appointed a task force to search out egregious state laws discriminating against women, and to recommend corrective action. However, many such laws have been found, and none have been addressed by the Justice Department during the Administration's tenure. Certainly this glaring question mark could become part of the Democratic arsenal against the incumbent. It would lend some meat to the predominantly "image"-type denunciations thus...
...advancing until it triumphs all along the line. A trend postulates a countertrend, a force to be overcome, and if that latter has any raison d'etre to begin with, it will eventually reassert itself, and turn things around. The Hegelian triad of thesis-antithesis-synthesis has much to recommend it as a scheme of change...