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...chief of the ruling Golkar Party -- a post that had previously been reserved for generals. The weekly published an interview with Army Major-General Sembiring Meliala, a former member of Parliament, who warned that the military would not tolerate being pushed away from the centers of power -- raising the specter of a clash between the President and the military...
Among whites the term "black expectations" raises the specter of vastly increased taxes or even seizure of their comfortable homes and swimming pools. But for most blacks -- at least in the short term -- expectations begin at a far more basic level, with services that would be simply assumed in an industrialized country. But apartheid has left them with almost nothing: the great majority live in such desperate poverty, in dusty, refuse-strewn townships or gritty rural backwaters, that their dreams are of clean water, paved streets, garbage collection, sewers...
...seemed like the perfect compromise--a convenient way for Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences to avoid taking a stand on ROTC. The University would stop paying MIT to run the ROTC program and thus further remove itself from the specter of the ban on gays in the military...
Only a few years ago, the tiger was considered a conservation success story. Centuries of legal tiger hunting and forest destruction had raised the specter of extinction, but in 1972 governments rallied to rescue the cats. Taking up the issue as a personal cause, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi launched Project Tiger, which established the country's network of reserves. Western nations joined with several Asian countries to ban hunting and the trade in skins. By 1980 populations on the subcontinent had recovered to the point where B.R. Koppikar, then director of Project Tiger, could boast to the New York...
MIDDLE EAST: Specter of Hebron...