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Although he estimated that Cabot House's six dormitories will be refurbished by the spring of 1988, Jewett said the College will not have a "definite answer" on the entire renovations schedule until the end of the term. "Our goal is to have it done and done as soon as it was planned," he said...
Senior middle-distance runner Cliff Sheehan made a triumphant return to the intercollegiate track circuit. Competing in his first meet of the season, Sheehan (who was on leave doing research last term) won the mile and 1000-meter races, and was voted the meet's most outstanding performer...
...campaign money when they get up in the morning, they think about it all day, and they think about it at night," says San Francisco Assemblyman Art Agnos. Last week a California congresswoman was accused of thinking about it too much. A Los Angeles County grand jury indicted three-term Representative Bobbi Fiedler for allegedly offering to help State Senator Ed Davis retire a $100,000 campaign debt if he dropped out of a nine-way primary race for the Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate. Fiedler called the charge "ridiculous...
...that, to democratic forms. Some of his more controversial authoritarian powers were ratified in a carefully orchestrated 1981 referendum, which he carried with 80%. The same year, he won a presidential election against a toothless opponent and also got approval for a constitutional amendment that stretched his four-year term to six years. In 1984 Marcos held elections for the Batasang Pambansa, or National Assembly. Opposition politicians won roughly one-third of the seats. Despite widespread accusations of cheating, the elections were judged acceptable by the Philippine community at large...
...year after the Philippines gained independence from the U.S., the two countries signed an agreement permitting the U.S. military to operate Clark and Subic for 99 years. In 1959 the term was shortened to 25 years, subject to renewal or cancellation every five years. During the 1979 negotiations, Marcos exploited anti-American sentiment and demanded $7.5 billion in "rent." Eventually, he settled for sovereignty over both bases plus $900 million in assistance over five years. One reason that the U.S. was willing to placate Marcos was that the Soviet Union has since 1979 slowly established a major naval complex...