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...ignored. "Libraries" don't drag their feet and "libraries" don't shuffle papers; only sentient beings can be described that way, and your form of innuendo effectively suggests that once again it's those dullards behind the desk who are standing between the students and the books. I solemnly reject that implication, because I can testify to the intelligence and integrity of the people who make the best they can of a large and complex system...
...Sandinistas reject such labels as Communism and Leninism, arguing that Sandinismo is a hybrid ideology unique to Nicaragua. They charge that their revolution has been skewed by a U.S.-sponsored military threat. "All repression," says a Foreign Ministry official, "is a result of the war." Otherwise, the Sandinistas argue, they would be well on the way to honoring the three pledges they made in 1979: to pursue a nonaligned foreign policy, to encourage political pluralism and to establish a mixed economy...
Chirac and his advisers worked through the night and all day Wednesday before settling on a new Cabinet acceptable to Mitterrand. Much of the communication with the Elysee was indirect. A favored channel: regular phone calls between top aides. Mitterrand used the process to reject several Chirac choices. Among them was U.D.F. Leader Jean Lecanuet, 66, whom Mitterrand vetoed as Foreign Minister because of his recent criticism of the President and his past enthusiasm for military ties to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The key appointments...
James McDavitt, the licensing board commissioner, said that the board voted to reject the recommendation by the Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission because the club was found to have willfully violated the law, and that it should not be permitted to operate under any circumstances...
Gorbachev was dismissive of the American offer but did not reject it outright. Said he: "Since the reply was received literally on the eve of this congress, the United States apparently expects our attitude to the U.S. stand to be known to the world from this rostrum . . . It is hard to detect any serious proposals on the part of the U.S. Administration to get down to resolving the cardinal problem of eliminating the nuclear threat." Gorbachev went on to hint that fixing a date for his next summit meeting with Reagan would depend on progress at the U.S.-Soviet nuclear...