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Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado visited Brasilia last week to confer with his Brazilian counterpart, Joào Figueiredo. The two leaders had some blunt words for their creditors. Figueiredo complained of high interest rates that "threaten to perpetuate our foreign debt problems." De la Madrid said, with much justification, that Latin America could not boost exports enough to pay its debts if creditor countries erected "ever increasing protectionist measures" against imports from the developing nations. The day before De la Madrid spoke, the Reagan Administration announced a cutback in the number of products allowed to enter...
...woman, Nancy J. Covello '87, said yesterday that although the intruder did not threaten or harm her, he had stolen $4 and ransacked several drawers in her four-woman Wigglesworth suite before she discovered him around...
...stake in El Salvador is not just moral: it is also strategic. Vietnam may have been on the other side of the world: Central America is in our backyard. A communist El Salvador would threaten vital American increase the pressure on democratic Honduras and Costa Rica. The growing strength of revolutionary ideology on the isthmus would make the Panama Canal even more vulnerable to attack by terrorists or governments. And a Marxist-dominated Central America would have much adverse effect on Mexico, which faces increasing demographic and political pressures in the years to come...
...generally quick to deny these allegations, saying all-male clubs are simply a pleasant way of socializing and in no way threaten women. Keating contends that the Pi Eta newsletter was nothing more than a lighthearted parody of the stereotype he says his club has unjustly earned, as a bastion of beer swilling misogynists. Keating strongly objects to this image, which he claims is a "myth" that continues to be passed on from year to year...
...insensible to the central lesson of Watergate, that a seemingly trivial act can take on such Aeschylean significance as to threaten the balance of the world. But it would be wrong to assign all the blame for that state of affairs to Nixon. There were abuses, and actions that were worse than abuses, on all sides. One need not describe the damage, not the least of which is that the U.S. now has a precedent for the removal of an elected President from office through a process of denunciation rather than due process...