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...North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Brussels last week: the alliance had finally settled on a budget that seemed to ensure that U.S. forces in Western Europe would not be cut. At their biannual meeting, 14 of NATO's Defense Ministers* agreed to spend $7.8 billion over the six-year period beginning Jan. 1 for an assortment of improvements, ranging from bomb-proofing aircraft shelters to building better communication networks. That is roughly a 40% increase over the amount spent on infrastructure in the previous six years. The ministers also pledged to increase munition stocks. By so doing, the alliance...
...from an unexpected source. As the meeting drew to a close, Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou threatened to torpedo its major goal: a painstakingly constructed agreement on the terms under which Spain and Portugal would be able to join the Community. Papandreou announced that unless the Community provided a six-year, $3.75 billion program to assist poor farmers in Mediterranean countries, he would veto any entry plan...
...issue but President Bok's October I letter on divestment will certainly go far to define the parameters of debate on this heated topic. In responding to fresh proposals in favor of divestment, Bok offers an eloquent analysis of this morally vexing problem while upholding the University's six-year refusal to sell stock in companies doing business in South Africa. He demonstrates, somewhat convincingly, how a policy of divestment is both inconsistent with the university's role in society and a dubious method of promoting social change in racist South Africa...
Psychiatrists have long assumed that depression is the most common mental problem in the U.S. That assumption is wrong, according to a $15 million six-year survey on psychiatric ailments conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Anxiety disorders, including phobias, panic disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorders, are the most widespread, say the survey results, afflicting 13.1 million Americans, or 8.3% of adults 18 years of age and over...
...June of this year Moon claimed before a Senate Subcommittee chaired by Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) that secret Justice Department memos prove three tax law experts recommended the IRS drop its six-year audit of the Unification Church "because there was no criminal case there." Moon urged that Hatch ask the Justice Department to make public these documents, which he claims show that the tax lawyers were twice overruled by a "high-level political appointee with no political experience...