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That theme will undoubtedly be struck in the weeks ahead as the mutineers try to steer clear of punishment. Given Ramos' and Ileto's soft treatment of the dissident troops, it is possible that Aquino will find herself without their support in pushing for maximum penalties. If she steps back from her firm pledge to hold those involved to the "fullest account," she is certain to hear from leftist quarters. "If she can't make these guys face a firing squad," snipes a student leader, "the least she can do is arrest them...
...Harvard administrators remain confidentthat the University will not be affected bypressures from the government and the privatesector to steer Harvard research into restrictedareas...
repeated anecdote about a welfare family living in a midtown New York City hotel at high cost to taxpayers. Even after some participants tried to steer him back to health insurance, the President repeated the totally unrelated anecdote. At a domestic-policy-council meeting on the health-insurance issue, Reagan read a letter from a 17-year-old California girl who has since died of cancer, even though it had no relevance to the plan for the elderly...
...life in the fast lane involves so much getting into and out of cars that motorists often have trouble remembering exactly where their vehicles are parked. Now customers who pull into the nine-level parking complex at the Century City North office tower have a new memory device to steer them to their cars: show tunes from famous motion pictures. Different parking levels have their own movie posters and such piped-in music as We're Off to See the Wizard and the theme from Star Wars...
...Inspired by a visit to Cardinal Richelieu's tomb, Bok sees an opportunity to help steer Iran along a more moderate path, to cut off terrorism at the source and, above all, to further the goal of worldwide liberal arts education. Using back-channel communications that circumvent the office of acting President Henry Rosovsky, Bok dispatches Eliot House Master Alan Heimert '49 on a secret fact-finding mission during intersession to contact Bani-Sadr's associates...