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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also lists a dramatic fall-off in federal financial support for higher education, a breakdown in the "postwar consensus" backing the funding of scientific research and an impending shortage of professors nationwide...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Financing Higher Education's Future | 12/9/1989 | See Source »

...Harmon said that if CAR had supported thecurrent housing system, Jewett and the housemasters would have eventually moved toward fullrandomization. He said that after Jewett releasedstatistics showing a lack of diversity in thehouses last month, it became clear that the housemasters would not support the current system...

Author: By Philip P. Pan, | Title: First-Years Divided On Lottery Compromise | 12/9/1989 | See Source »

Unfortunately, Larew starts with the assumption that Israel's democracy should imitate America's and any deviation from "the political liberties that we embrace" should lead to an automatic diminishing of American support for Israel. But Israel exists in a completely different geopolitical arena, both internally and externally. How many times in the last 40 years has the United States had to defend itself from an annihilation as Israel has done three times? Does America have a mandatory three-year military draft and military reserves for all men from the age of 21 to 45? Does the United States have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Legitimate Debate on Israel | 12/9/1989 | See Source »

Finally, Larew's assumption that Israeli democracy is eroding has no support. If he wants to say that the treatment of West Bank Palestinians is "undemocratic," then I think he would get little argument from any side; the West Bank is under military occupation--a consequence of Jordan's unsuccessful surprise attack during the Six Day War--and as a result does not even pretend to live under the same rules as the Israeli democracy. Many right-wing Israelis would indeed like to rectify this situation by annexing the territories and including the Palestinians in the state, a solution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Legitimate Debate on Israel | 12/9/1989 | See Source »

...Current policy illogically supports a civilwar to support a formula that is supposed to end acivil war," said Hawk. He said any treaty thatincorporates the Khmer Rouge into a transitionalgovernment would allow the group to "be back withguns through the legitimate organs of the state...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.S. Reps. Discuss Cambodia | 12/9/1989 | See Source »

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