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Members of the R-H Peace Alliance are dismayed by President Reagan's decision to continue with draft registration. By going back on his campaign pledge to scrap registration Reagan demonstrates a lack of integrity. This move is another example of how the current administration relies upon the threat of military force to carry out its foreign policy. Reagan claims that ending registration would send the wrong signal to the Soviet Union during the crisis in Poland. While determining an appropriate response to events in Poland is difficult, attempting to register 18-year-old men does nothing to help...
...students should protest any move by the law faculty to coerce them into jettisoning attempts to include diversity in selecting members. And if faculty members should succeed in forcing students to scrap the use of race as a consideration, students should boycott competing for the review altogether...
...mention: warheads on NATO bombers, missiles aboard submarines in the North Atlantic, the arsenals of Britain and France. Some, in fact, saw it simply as a ploy to reassure NATO allies and thus help secure the controversial deployment of the very same missiles that he was offering to scrap...
...deliberately held itself aloof from the Communists, although some cooperation does still exist on the local level. This year the Dutch intelligence agency declared the Council to be free of Communist penetration, and Interior Minister Ed van Thijn told the Dutch parliament that there was "not even a scrap of evidence" for allegations that the council was taking money from the KGB, the Soviet intelligence agency...
...C.N.D. is not urging the U.S. to scrap its own nuclear arsenal. "What we are saying to both superpowers," points out Kent, "is that without any more negotiations you could both cut massively into your nuclear stocks without risk because you both have enough for deterrence." The national headquarters of C.N.D. is a few cramped offices in London's seedy Camden Town. Twelve full-time staffers (two of whom are Communists) and 20 volunteers clad in jeans and T shirts stuff envelopes, sort mail and dispatch the leaflets, badges and stickers that have already brought in $200,000 this year...