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...Objectvely, the student demonstrators are good for reformers in the Party because the reformers can say, `Look. If we don't do more about political reform, the students and the general public will resist our administration. They will reject cooperation with the government," says Ding Xuelian, a sociology graduate student who was a Red Guard during China's decade-long Cultural Revolution...
...professors joined the debate arguing that textbooks used by the Mobile, Ala. high school system are based on secular humanist principles and reject religious views...
...personnel depend on blood donated by their colleagues. To ensure the purity of this supply line, the State Department will begin requiring AIDS tests of its employees and their dependents in January. Those who test positive for the virus will be restricted to U.S. duty; also, the department will reject job applicants with positive results, thus in effect making the AIDS test part of the foreign-service examination. The policy, which is likely to be challenged in court, marks the first time a federal agency has ordered civilian employees to be tested for AIDS...
Ninety-five percent of those who perform the drug screening said they reject applicants when tests turn up positive...
While few delegates disputed that statement, several contradicted Shultz's claim that there is mounting sympathy in Latin America for the confrontational U.S. policy of support for the contras. "The United States insists on using force, and we reject force," complained a diplomat at the meeting. Luis Gonzales Posada, Peru's Ambassador to the OAS, said U.S. support for the rebels "makes the situation worse." Meanwhile Miguel d'Escoto, Nicaragua's Foreign Minister, charged that the "colossus from the north" was the cause of the "problem in Central America and the problems in Latin America." His deputy, Victor Hugo Tinoco...