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...revolutionary tradition. Nothing could be further from the truth. They are among the most conservative leaders on earth, and their conservatism is basically compatible with the aspirations of a people whose lives have been torn apart at regular intervals throughout their history. Soviet foreign policy, with all its unabashed sponsorship of radicals and "wars of national liberation," is essentially a means of keeping the U.S.S.R.'s enemies off balance if not under control and thus making the world safe for Soviet Communism. That same motive lay behind the invasion of Afghanistan in December...
...nagging problem, particularly in a sagging economy, is raising the necessary money. This was the principal topic of a three-day national symposium on the "American Movie Palace" held last week in Milwaukee, under the sponsorship of the School of Architecture and Urban Planning of the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. The most significant message came from Washington. It was delivered by Paul C. Pritchard, deputy director of the Interior Department's new Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service, who bore the bad news that direct federal support for theater preservation projects is drying up. The good news was that under...
...scholars at institutions of higher education for the purpose of influencing public opinion within the United States or in foreign countries; and (6) a requirement that if intelligence agencies enter into contracts with academic institutions, research institutes, centers, and other entities affiliated with academic institutions, or individual academics, the sponsorship of such contracts shall be fully disclosed in a manner consistent with institutional regulations governing contracts with ouside sponsors...
...engaged in some last-minute gamesmanship. It was Reagan who first challenged Bush to a two-man debate on Jan. 29, and the Nashua Telegraph (circ. 25,604) agreed to sponsor it. Two days before the debate, however, the Federal Election Commission ruled that the paper's sponsorship amounted to an il legal political contribution. Reagan offered to split the $3,500 tab with Bush. Bush refused, so Reagan paid...
...Rhodesians were killed in continuing clashes and sporadic skirmishes between guerrillas and Salisbury security forces. Three Royal Air Force troops, members of the Commonwealth monitoring force, also died when their Puma helicopter crashed after accidentally striking a power line; they were the first casualties of Britain's sponsorship of the truce. In other provocations, guerrilla supporters were regularly abused by hostile blacks as well as by whites. On several occasions white police harassed marchers at newly legal Patriotic Front rallies and, in one case, fired tear gas on a crowd carrying flowers to the airport welcome. More ominously...