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...population sees, hears, and reads. Thursday's example: a pledge by the Communist Party's Central Committee to push for stronger ethics in public and private life, a move which will not coincidentally require stronger control over the country's media and cultural life. The press, already under strict supervision, was exhorted to report in a more positive way, while the Party announced its intention to strengthen its "macro-control of press and publications." "After months of pushing an anti-American campaign," says TIME's Lewis Simons, "the authorities are simply widening their effort. This is the latest attempt...
According to Fitzsimmons, Harvard would not likely be as affected by strict federal legislation as other institutions because it already takes a broad range of factors into account to find students of diverse backgrounds...
...NAJIBULLAH, 49, former Soviet-backed President of Afghanistan who had spent more than four years in refuge at a U.N. compound; in Kabul. Najibullah, a ruthless security chief who ruled from 1986 until 1992, was found hanged after the Taliban rebels captured Kabul. Afghanistan will now be ruled by strict Islamic...
...greatest problem with the Libertarian philosophy is that by returning to a strict Constitutional interpretation, one must assume that the demographics of the population for which the Constitution was written have remained static. Obviously, this is not the case...
...lesser problem with strict interpretation of Constitution is that there are certain policies and programs clearly in our national interest that the authors of the Constitution could not have foreseen. Libertarians seek to cut funding for the space program, which they claim exceeds the legal limits of American government. Similarly, they propose to sell off most of the land in the National Parks System, claiming that the government doesn't have a passable explanation for reserving so much land for public...