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After initially praising the Reagan Administration's recent commitment to increase federal funding of scientists, scholars are now expressing concern that the policy may threaten academic freedom and independence by over emphasizing research that produces practical technology...
...overdose did not seriously threaten his life, and at week's end McFarlane, still hospitalized under observation, was expected to recover completely -- and eventually to resume testifying about his central role in the sale of arms to Iran. Police nonetheless concluded that McFarlane, 49, had attempted suicide...
...idea outright as a "malicious move to sow dissension and division within insurgent ranks." Said a rebel leader: "This is the most important phase of our struggle, and we shall do everything to kill Cory's soldiers." Countered Defense Minister Rafael Ileto: "We won't allow anyone to threaten us. We are prepared. I think we are in a better position to meet them now than we were six or eight months...
...genuine land reform package is likely to threaten many powerful interests and, unless handled with a subtlety uncharacteristic of the present regime, will be watered down beyond recognition by the time the peasant farmers might reap any benefits. Meanwhile, the only consensus concerning the American military bases is that the U.S. doesn't pay enough for what it gets...
...posture toward some of its closest economic partners. Coming at a time when the air is already thick with international trade recriminations, the new thrust carries a major risk: that it will do less to alter the commercial balance than to bolster the increasingly strong protectionist forces that threaten to gnaw away at world economic growth...