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...doesn't go far enough," said President Reagan in a speech to the Oklahoma state legislature. Instead, Reagan reminded Brezhnev of his "zero option" proposal made last November, in which the U.S. would forgo placing its new Pershing II and cruise missiles on European soil if Moscow would scrap its arsenal of SS-20 missiles...
...Corporation's decision last Monday to scrap its proposal to abandon Harvard's automatic ban on investments in banks that make loans to South Africa stemmed directly from a month of organized and loud protest. Members and supporters of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) rallied several times in support of the absolute ban; their efforts culminated in a rousing open meeting that helped persuade the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility to oppose unanimously the Corporation's recommendation...
Thirty seven seconds later, Neil Sheehy and the Badgers Ted Pearson, who appears ready and willing to badger anybody that happens to be around got into a little scrap alongside the Harvard net, and each took a roughing penalty. However Sheehy had a slash tacked on for good measure, and so Harvard would be short handed for two minutes after Pearson returned...
Which is, approximately, what I believed before last Sunday. Sure, I'm more convinced today that many of our urban criminals aren't intrinsically evil, just cornered. Being mugged doesn't really make you scrap your outlook or change your politics, today's pundits notwithstanding. But it does make you sit back and think about just what can happen when two lives collide. That, in itself, is something of an epiphany...
...America's strategic deterrent only from 1986 to the mid-1990s, when the advanced-technology Stealth bomber is scheduled to replace it. The B-l is also likely to be virtually obsolete by the end of the decade because of improved Soviet air defenses. If Congress decided to scrap the $29 billion program, it could cut $4.7 billion from next year's budget...