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...flag debate, Bridget L. Kerrigan '91 and Timothy P. McCormack '91-'92, to take down what Belai deems "offensive symbols." On behalf of the executive board of the Harvard Republican Club, we must warn against this step toward the politicization of the Undergraduate Council and ask that the council refrain from taking a position on the Confederate flag issue...
Although several groups on campus have clamored for the students to remove these symbols, Jewett said that these displays are permitted under University policy. But several masters at yesterday's meeting expressed disapproval of such symbols and said they hope to be able to persuade students to refrain from hanging those objects, according to those who attended the meeting...
Global oil companies also sought to help restrain prices. After being admonished by Bush last August to refrain from profiteering at the gasoline pump, Big Oil has become mindful of its image and eager to forestall congressional moves to pass a windfall-profits tax. When the gulf fighting started, such energy giants as Chevron, Mobil and Shell pledged to freeze gasoline prices at company-owned stations. (The U.S. average for regular unleaded fuel was $1.24 per gal. as the war broke out, in contrast to $1.01 last August, just before the Iraqi invasion.) Shell, Exxon and other firms later...
...wants to do harm to improved superpower relations, least of all George Bush. So far, Washington has only expressed its "outrage" about the Baltics and asked the Soviets to "refrain from further violence" or face possible curtailment of economic programs. While there are other reasons to postpone it, the White House said last week that the summit scheduled for Moscow next month is "clearly up in the air" after Vilnius. Says Michael Mandelbaum, director of the Project on East-West Relations at the Council on Foreign Relations: "My guess is that the Bush Administration will do as little...
...been only an hour and 35 minutes since we heard the first siren at the Hilton. We continue to talk to people, all of whom express outrage at having been targeted by the Iraqis. "Why are they trying to kill our children and not our soldiers?" is a common refrain. All of them are sure that the IDF and the IAF could make short work of the coward who attacks innocents in their homes. "That son of a bitch," one old woman calls him. Anger and indignation, not fear, is the dominant emotion here. In classic Mideastern fashion, people grab...