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Syria, facing the future without its own longtime sponsor, the Soviet Union, also needs friends in the West and has signed on to the U.S. plan for a regional peace conference. President Hafez Assad has apparently decided to move to negotiations in hopes of reclaiming the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. "He can do that a lot more effectively through diplomacy than terrorism," says a Western official...
...drug testing for federal prisoners eligible for parole and severely curtail the ability of state prisoners, including death- row inmates, to challenge their conviction in federal habeas corpus proceedings. While a similar anticrime package died in House-Senate negotiations last year, Delaware Democrat Joseph Biden, the measure's chief sponsor, predicted that this bill would prove more palatable...
...black -- and just 25 of the 20,000 country-club pros. The sport's one faint hope for minority recruitment is the Atlanta-based Calvin Peete National Minority Golf Foundation. Set up in 1989 to award scholarships to promising blacks discovered on public courses, it has yet to sponsor anyone. Donations total $100,000, barely enough for administrative expenses. Only $20,000 has come from pro golf and pro golfers -- and not a penny from private country clubs...
...determine years in advance if an asteroid will hit the earth. In theory, a nuclear missile could then be launched to rendezvous with the intruder, explode nearby and nudge it into a safe path. NASA, which spends under $1 million a year watching for collisions, will be a sponsor of the first International Conference on Near-Earth Asteroids next week in San Juan Capistrano, Calif., and is planning a seminar this year on asteroid avoidance. Still, the threat of a sneak attack remains. In 1989 a 250-m-wide (820 ft.) asteroid was discovered only after it had missed...
...mind-numbing game of intellectual Ping-Pong has transcended the monotonous and entered the realm of the ridiculous. This April, after Hillel's Coordinating Council voted to condemn an antigay poster distributed by the Association Against Learning in the Absence of Religion and Morality (AALARM) and agreed to co-sponsor a Holocaust memorial service with the Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Students Association (BGLSA), AALARM co-founder E. Adam Webb '93 actually told The Crimson that Hillel was a "political, PC hack group...