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...with Elizabeth and Bob Dole, the Ruckelshauses have become one of the most visible and influential husband-and-wife teams in Washington. In contrast to Jill, Bill has been a quiet team player, moving to rehabilitate the EPA's reputation and employee morale, which were damaged by a spate of congressional investigations into political favoritism, conflict of interest and mismanagement of the toxic-waste program under former Chief Anne Burford...
...national movements, leaders hasten to add, couldn't have gotten this far without constant pressure from student groups, whom they credit as the real leaders of the national movement. Indeed, they say, the current spate of activism across the country is a direct outgrowth of student protests in this country during the late 1970s sparked by the bloody riots of Black high school students in Soweto, the Black township outside Johannesburg...
...MOST STRIKING fact that emerged from the spate of campus demonstrations this spring was the inability of the administration to respond gracefully to student complaints. Student movements lately have ranged from the most self-serving to the most al truistic--from law School students sitting-in to protest a grading policy change to rallies in support of divestiture. But University administrators have fueled almost all of them by giving students the impression that they don't give a damn...
...general language of the OECD communique glossed over a spate of specific conflicts among nations. Though the delegates renounced protectionism, their governments have been quicker to build trade barriers than to tear them down. The U.S. slapped a heavy tariff on Japanese motorcycles last month, and Western Europe pressured the Japanese to limit exports of light trucks, machine tools and television tubes. American officials have made no progress in persuading the European nations to reduce the subsidies that help boost their agricultural exports...
...spate of detailed disclosures in the past few years about the CIA's dirty work has shown that covert projects, even if successful, can result in resentment of U.S. influence. The absurd lengths to which it can be stretched were revealed last week in the West German parliament when members of the antinuclear Green Party charged that the U.S. was responsible for the death of a West German doctor who was executed by contras in Nicaragua two weeks ago. Party Leader Petra Kelly raised a banner in front of the speaker's podium reading: SUPPORTING THE U.S.A. MEANS...