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...winds down to a whimper, so too does a U.S. policy that preoccupied the Reagan Administration through two terms. The seeds of disengagement were sown last April, when President Bush secured $49.75 million in nonlethal aid for the contras in exchange for a guarantee that Congress could review -- and sever -- the aid package this November. Since many in Congress support the Central American leaders' desire to disband the contras, the Bush Administration seemed to capitulate without a fight. "Our intention is to play it straight and stick with the ((peace)) process," said a State Department official. "We're not going...
...seen a lot of people writing my name on desks," he says. "It's clearly not my handwriting. Not only in Lamont but in Emerson and Sever and things like that...
...Harvard hopes to use the City of Cambridge as a guinea pig for its laboratory experiments" until it is controlled by the University's "disciples of Karl Marx," said Councillor John J. Toomey, when presenting the resolution to sever Harvard from Cambridge before the council...
Over the past week, the Sever Quad has been transformed from a frisbee and lacrosse haven to the site of the nation's oldest graduation ceremonies. The University has erected more than 70 tents around the Yard and in the courtyards of the residential houses. The largest--a 175-foot dacron covering bought in 1986 for Harvard's 350th Anniversary--covers the Tercentenary Theater stage alongside Memorial Church. It protects an area more than twice as large as previous structures, shielding the likes of President Derek C. Bok, Pakistani Prime Minister and Commencement Speaker Benazir Bhutto from the elements...
Down below, a sea of folding chairs blankets Tercentenary Theater, stretching from Memorial Church to the steps of Widener Library and from University Hall to Sever Hall. The University has rented 73,000 chairs to accommodate the week's activities--19,000 for Commencement exercises alone--at a cost of $.70 to about $1.50 each, says Dwyer...