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Yale's only Ivy test so far has been Brown, not exactly the best team to use as a measure for anyone's Ivy chances...
...NUCLEAR TESTING. The Threshold Test Ban treaty, signed in 1974 but never ratified, provides for a ceiling of 150 kilotons on underground nuclear blasts -- a limit that both nations currently observe. Baker and Shevardnadze agreed in principle on verification procedures that should allow the treaty to be completed at next year's summit. Yet nuclear testing will remain contentious: the Soviets still want a comprehensive ban on all underground blasts; the U.S. insists that nuclear weapons must continue to be tested for safety and reliability...
...Texas, where such tests have been mandatory since 1985, average scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test have remained flat and the dropout rate high. Critics maintain that real learning has been stifled. "Teachers are teaching to the test," says John Moore, chairman of the education department at San Antonio's Trinity University. Some South Carolinians, on the other hand, feel that their three-hour high school exit exam in reading, writing and math -- which for the first time will be required for a diploma this academic year -- has already had a salutary effect. "Students are taking it seriously and studying...
...western border shared with Thailand. At dawn on Saturday, 5,000 fighters from the non-Communist resistance group linked to former Prime Minister Son Sann launched an offensive that thrust as deep as 30 miles into northwestern Cambodia, claiming to capture several towns along Route 69 in a test of strength against the army of Phnom Penh. As for Viet Nam's soldiers, they left behind more than 50,000 dead and returned home to a nation demoralized by poverty, unemployment, food shortages, corruption and continuing status as an international pariah. Both countries confront internal challenges that may make...
...forces should be able to hold off the poorly disciplined forces of Sihanouk and Son Sann, perhaps 20,000 in all. The declared aim of their offensive was to test the strength of the government and force resumption of political talks. The Khmer Rouge are a different matter. Inside Cambodia the common wisdom is that Khmer Rouge strength and ability are overrated. But the view from the border, where most of the troops are based, is far less sanguine. "The Khmer Rouge are in this fight to the end," says a guerrilla- warfare expert in Thailand. Observes an international relief...