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Nobody, in or out of academia, denies that there has been race and sex discrimination in the granting of tenure. What troubles many academics is that the corrective methods being used by the Government seem increasingly dangerous. Most would agree with Dartmouth President John G. Kemeny, a staunch critic of past discrimination. Says Kemeny: "Academic institutions now live under a constant threat that any employee not hired or promoted (even for the best of reasons) can file a complaint that will bring a huge bureaucracy down on them. Even when the institution wins the case- and good institutions win most...
...staunch supporter of Taiwan for years, Reagan was asked at a rally in Cleveland on May 17 how he would treat Taiwan. He replied: "One of the things I look forward to most if I am successful in this election is to re-establish official relations between the United States Government and Taiwan...
Several other leftist groups are united in their staunch opposition to the government. They include the People's Fedayan, a Marxist guerrilla organization; Peykar, a Marxist offshoot of the Mujahidin; and the KUMOLEH, a largely peasant-supported party...
...Congressman Barber Conable, a member of the Budget Committee: "There is a substantial aura of make-believe about our prognostications." After the House vote, the budget battle moved to the Senate, where Ernest Hollings of South Carolina has succeeded Edmund Muskie as chairman of the Bud get Committee. A staunch supporter of increased military spending, Hollings is expected to press for deep cuts in domestic programs and a bigger Pentagon budget. In the end, the Senate too is expected to produce a balanced budget, but one that will stay balanced only in the unlikely event that the economy cooperates...
...pick-up strips outside Jeddah or Riyadh, and that the whole picture of royal carnality in the film is a gross distortion. Reports TIME'S Beirut bureau chief William Stewart: "In Saudi Arabia, of all places, such a scene is unimaginable. By and large, the Saudi rulers are staunch Wahhabis, a sect with in Islam roughly akin to the Puritans. No doubt the thought of sexual dalliance must occur to some princesses (there are a lot of them), but that does not make Jeddah or Riyadh an Arabian Nights version of La Dolce Vita...