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...Calvin and Lucy Ellis Aid pays "the fees of tuition and instruction...of such descendants of David Ellis...and John Ellis...provided his, or her, morals and scholarship are such as to allow him or her to remain a member of the college...
Those facts of international life remain, but today they do not seem quite the immutable laws of nature they did four years ago, when Americans last chose a President. Since then, the Soviet Union has acquired a stunningly new and different leadership of its own. Mikhail Gorbachev is experimenting with ideas that could lead to reforms in the internal regime and improvements in the external behavior of the U.S.S.R. The potential for profound change in the nature of the Soviet challenge demands a thorough, imaginative rethinking of the American response...
Difficult as such a goal will be to achieve, it is easier to imagine Gorbachev moving in that direction than any of his predecessors, or any of his would-be successors. Largely for that reason, it is in the interests of the U.S. for him to remain in office and succeed in his program, as long as he is demonstrably seeking to ameliorate the repressiveness of Soviet policies at home and abroad. However, it would be premature and imprudent to admit the Soviet Union into the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, not to mention the International Monetary Fund...
...mainframe computers that do much of the most vital information processing in the U.S. remain relatively unscathed. "With mainframes, we've got a whole regimen of quality control and data integrity that we use," says Bill Wright, a spokesman for EDS. But with the rapid spread of PC-to-mainframe linkups, that safety could be compromised. "If the same sorts of standards aren't applied soon to the PC environment," says Wright, "it's going to be a real problem for the whole industry...
...promontories, known as Okinotorishima (Offshore Bird Islands), 1,300 miles southwest of Tokyo, are the southernmost points of Japanese sovereignty. Under international law, they provide the country with an exclusive, fish-rich | economic zone of 163,000 sq. mi., an area larger than Japan itself -- as long as they remain above water...