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Thirty-five Harvard students boarded buses bound for today's Rally for Life in Washington, D.C. yesterday, hopeful that their protest will strengthen the national antiabortion movement...
...their eagerness to talk. In a commentary in the Soviet weekly New Times, political columnist Leonid Mlechin wrote, "Cooler heads will not ignore the will of the Lithuanian voters and will start shaping up a mechanism of cooperation with Vilnius. Any option for resolving this problem with force will strengthen the position of those in the republics who believe it is useless to try to reach an agreement with Moscow...
...despair of a twice-exiled people is etched into Inna Hairadze's tear- streaked face. Together with 100 other Meskhetian Turks, she stands in a thin wool coat on a Moscow street, protesting her people's lot. In 1944, "to strengthen border safety," Joseph Stalin deported the Turks from their mountainous homeland in Georgia to the flatlands of Uzbekistan. Then, last June, the Uzbeks rose up against the Turks, burning houses, belongings, even babies. One hundred people died, and 17,000 Turks were moved out. Authorities in Moscow scattered the refugees across Russia, where they are still denied permanent residence...
Internationalization was high on Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence's fundraising wish list issued this fall. Spence has said that he will use part of the money from the coming capitalcampaign to strengthen Harvard's area studiescenters, offer more work-abroad opportunities forundergraduates, and increase the number of foreignstudents at the College
...side, diplomats are urging the Japanese to increase public spending, streamline the country's local distribution system for goods, and strengthen antimonopoly laws to give foreign products easier access to Japanese markets. The Japanese want the U.S. to promise to trim its budget deficit and significantly hike the national savings rate, thus reducing the demand for Japanese imports and bolstering American corporate competitiveness. An interim report on the talks is due by April...