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Responsibility for the new wave of killings was claimed by the Dashmesh Regiment, a previously unrecognized group of Sikh terrorists that counts moderate Sikhs as well as Hindus and the government among its sworn enemies. The Dashmesh, which may be connected with the fanatical Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, has vowed to murder one political figure a day until the government lifts a ban imposed late last month on a radical Sikh student organization...
...gone to the Greenbrier, an isolated resort in West Virginia, to escape the postresignation curiosity of Washington, but continued, minute by minute, to manage the Middle East crisis. The President had decided that I should remain Secretary of State until my successor was sworn in, or until the President wanted me to do otherwise...
...Yard, the ACSR is holding an open meeting. They want to know what the Harvard community thinks. They could take a vote on divestiture this spring. They could pass a resolution calling for divestiture this spring. The ACSR is the appointed conscience of the Corporation, and the Corporation has sworn to respect it. A vote by the ACSR for divestiture could open the door to divestiture by the Corporation...
...country on the brink of democracy, the announcement came as a troubling surprise. Without any forewarning, a terse official statement last week announced that Panamanian Vice President Jorge Illueca, 65, had been sworn in as President. In a televised address an hour later, Illueca delivered a speech intended to assure the citizens he would make no changes in government policy. Yet why had President Ricardo de la Espriella, 48, resigned? Mysteriously, official newspapers later made no mention of the resignation...
...Pentagon's scramble to put together an invasion in 48 hours, press coverage simply got little consideration. The sensible solution would have been to have a small pool of journalists along, tipped off in advance, sworn to secrecy, perhaps even sequestered. The pool members would have been required to share their notes and pictures with the rest of the press. But in a nation at peace, how could such a pool have been assembled without alerting everyone? The Pentagon is now studying a proposal to have a pool always in existence, with a rotating membership ("Report to Andrews...