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...pressuring the White House. Lawmakers have been growing increasingly alarmed at the possibility of a return to power by the Khmer Rouge forces, which were responsible for the death of at least 1 million fellow Cambodians during their reign of terror from 1975 to 1978. Last month the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence voted against further covert aid to the tripartite coalition; the corresponding House committee was expected to follow suit. Two weeks ago, a bipartisan group of 11 Senators circulated a letter asking the Administration to alter its policy...
...past year, the heads of giant American hotel chains -- Curtis Carlson of Radisson and Jay Pritzker of Hyatt -- were invited to pay secret visits to the island. Once there, flown in surreptitiously via Mexico City, the Americans were shown scale models of prime beachfront property and asked to select one for future development. Intriguingly, these displays were set up just outside Fidel Castro's office in Havana. Castro was nowhere in sight during Carlson's visit, but Pritzker was treated to a 2 1/2-hour meeting with the leader. No deals are possible until Washington lifts its trade sanctions. But both...
Eventually, the Corporation released two listsof finalists, one with 69 names and one with 23,to select committees of professors and students inan effort to ensure consensus. The lists includednames from both inside and outside academia, fromboth Harvard and elsewhere. Among the names on thelonger list was that of future Secretary of StateGeorge P. Shultz, who was then director of theOffice of Management and Budget...
...spearheading efforts to change Harvard's annual housing lottery to make the system more random. Last year, he raised cries for blood among first-year students by pushing through a system of "nonordered choice" in which rising sophomores are randomly assigned to one of the four upperclass Houses they select on their housing form...
KUWAIT. Last week's election was called to select a 50-seat National Council that is supposed to develop guidelines for the future of Kuwaiti democracy. Kuwait has been without a parliament since 1986, when the ruling family suspended it. Nonetheless, ex-parliamentarians called for a boycott of the election because they believed the council would be powerless; although government candidates took all 50 seats, only 65% of the electorate voted...