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Calling plans for an Indian Center "far down the line," President Bok said last week that endowing a permanent chair in Indian history would be his first priority in expanding Harvard's coverage of the subcontinent.
Pakistan's announcement that it can "go nuclear" at any time it chooses presents sharp dilemmas for its neighbors and allies. In New Delhi, the government of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi has come under pressure from conservative politicians to start building nuclear weapons. Relations between the longtime rivals on the...
Second, the Urdu language, which seems to pose serious problems for Rosenthal, is not unknown in Australia either, for it is the national language of the Pakistanis and many of the Indians who migrated to that country. In fact, Urdu (along with Hindi, which is a closely related language written...
As a haven, West Germany has many attractions. The country is relatively safe and stable. It offers steady growth, low inflation and generous welfare programs. Best of all, the Federal Republic has an unusually liberal asylum law that was adopted in 1949 to accommodate Germans fleeing East European Communist rule...
Given such problems, some physicians in India and Africa believe resources devoted to fighting AIDS should be used instead to treat curable diseases. That view was recently echoed in the Deccan Herald, the leading daily in the state of Karnataka, which declared, "The question must be asked whether so much...