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...violently violate the rights of guests with serious penalties, such as requirements to withdraw. And the University should discontinue its wishy-washy response to those who engage in acts of civil disobedience. Those who violate clear standards of respect for speakers and listeners--standards which the University should promptly spell out--should be arrested. Finally, the university no longer should try to punish the students by closing down a speech, unless the speaker himself is unwilling to continue...
Gorbachev's popularity in the United States has gained so much that he could probably blow away the Democratic presidential field in any election or debate. But before Americans roll out the red carpet, they should snap out of the charismatic spell he has cast and look realisticly at a Soviet leader who is following the policies of his predecessors...
...inspection procedures spelled out last week may help overcome such opposition. After they were announced, Idaho Republican James McClure, who had been thought likely to help lead the fight against the treaty, left open the possibility that he might yet vote to ratify. But suspicions about possible Soviet cheating, even if they are overcome in the INF vote, could spell deep trouble for an eventual START agreement...
...from the defense budget in the current fiscal year, $8.2 billion more in 1989. Medicare, farm price supports and student loans would be trimmed by $4 billion this year and nearly $6 billion next year. But there was little in the way of specifics. The conferees did not spell out where the new tax burden was going to fall. Nor did they decide which nondefense discretionary programs were going to lose $6 billion over the next two years. Congressional leaders will have to deal with the devil in those details...
...quest for the fool's gold of material conquest; and an invented tale called The Baker and His Wife, about a couple who long to escape the curse of childlessness inflicted by the "witch next door." Inasmuch as the holy grails that will lift the witch's spell are Jack's beloved white cow, Little Red Ridinghood's crimson cape, Rapunzel's yellow hair and Cinderella's golden slipper, by the end of the first act the fairy-tale figures have bonded into a community and sing and dance about living happily ever after...