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...Blacks on campus. BSA President Curtis Hairston '84 says that there has been a decline in the old and "obvious" issues. The battle for a third world student center, which rallied many minorities two years ago was resolved with the formation of the race-relations Foundation. The struggle to strengthen the Afro-American Studies Department has lost some of its freshness, Hairston concedes, saying, "Of course issues are going to lose their interest after a while...
...strengthen the Immigration and Naturalization Service's border patrol, the bill "expresses the sense of the Senate" that more funds be allocated to the patrol. But it neither authorizes nor appropriates such funds. Beyond that, the bill also calls for a "user's fee" for aliens seeking access to the U.S. border. One wonders how many migrants determined to flee Mexico's desperate poverty would actually be deterred by such an admission charge, or how many would even be aware of its existence...
That audit proved to be inconclusive, but it led to a second, completed earlier this year, that uncovered $1.2 billion in unsecured lending. Calvi was buying up Ambrosiano stock, possibly using money borrowed on international financial markets by Ambrosiano and its subsidiaries, in an attempt to strengthen his grip on the parent bank. During 1978-79 and in 1981, Ambrosiano and its subsidiaries raised about $1.2 billion. In these years the banks lent at least $800 million to low-capitalized shell companies in Panama, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein. The shell companies, in turn, used about $400 million to buy stock...
There are indeed some indications that the economy may be breaking out of the inflation-recession cycle. But the upturn so long awaited has not yet arrived and before it can strengthen into a sustained advance, many hard decisions, especially concerning the budget, must be made. These may involve more pain, but the alternative is a return to the failed and unacceptable economic poli cies of the past...
During his campaign for the presidency, Ronald Reagan repeatedly protested that in pursuing a policy of rapprochement with Communist China, the U.S. was callously selling out its old ally Taiwan. He vowed that if elected he would reverse that trend and strengthen relations with the island republic. But last week Washington and Peking issued a joint communique that to Taiwan and to U.S. conservatives, at least, read suspiciously like a sellout. In Shanghai II (viewed as the direct historical descendant of the Feb. 27, 1972, Shanghai Communique signed by President Nixon), China affirmed as "fundamental policy" the quest for "peaceful...