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...Young, staff coordinator between the students and the Admissions Office, goes along with no other complaint, he does agree that they are in a tenuous position with respect to the office. In other respects, however, his analysis differs from both that of the students and of Jewett. Young suggests that the performance of the students has been something less than confidence-inspiring. He says that the decision to restrict students' access to the office phones, for example, in part resulted from the high phone bill students ran up the previous year. Most of the calls, Young added, were placed...
...Soviet press extensively quoted foreign reports favorable to Hanoi or damaging to Phnom-Penh -and by extension, to Peking. The Chinese, more restrained, declared only that they hoped the situation could be resolved by negotiation. Unhappy over their inability to contain Cambodian intransigence and intent on preserving their tenuous relationship with Hanoi, Chinese leaders evenhandedly publicized reports from both sides in the conflict...
...proposal that was passed is so tenuous," Geoff Nicholson '81, moderator of the Freshman Council, said yesterday, adding that the committee to which the resolution has been sent will probably recommend a better proposal...
...revivalist ethnic group, while some may sincerely believe in it, is merely a disguise for the conservatism of the economically insecure and the politically opportunistic. It develops when groups, especially the petit bourgeois groups which have achieved a tenuous hold on the lower steps of the good life, feel threatened by those beneath them who are clamoring for a place on the ladder. Politically, it provides a base for charlatans who, lacking all sense of human deceny or commitment to the common good, would place their own personal advancement by means of the monopoly of their own little ethnic turn...
...critical right of Congress to exercise meaningful oversight of the nation's intelligence community has sustained a serious--albeit hardly fatal--blow in the wake of the administration's decision on Helms, and only a very tenuous silver lining could be discerned as the air cleared in Washington. As part of the bargain with Justice Department officials, Helms agreed to testify fully in any subsequent investigations pertaining to the entire CIA episode in Allende's Chile...