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Officials have defended the affirmative action policies of the department. A memo from Government Department Chair Kenneth A. Shepsle, circulated yesterday in University Hall, said affirmative action is necessary to sustain the intellectual diversity of the students...
...Senator Claiborne Pell, 76, one of the chamber's most liberal members, said he would retire at the end of his current term. He becomes the seventh Demo crat to announce he will step down, a number that now endangers the Democrats' ability even to retain enough seats to sustain a filibuster...
When one first-year asked how West has managed to retain a sense of hope in the face of a multitude of social problems, he said relationships have helped to sustain...
...promised, President Clinton vetoed legislation that would have unilaterally ended American participation in the U.N. arms embargo against Bosnia. The President expects to use the congressional summer recess to wheedle enough members to change their votes and sustain his veto...
Following the lead of the U.S. Senate the week before, the House overwhelmingly voted 298 to 128 to end American participation in the U.N. arms embargo against Bosnia. The White House immediately launched an intensive effort to switch enough votes to sustain a presidential veto...