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...insurgency. Aquino reportedly stood firm in her belief that talks are a sensible first step toward peace. Nonetheless, she made it clear, as she told Congress, that her government would "not stand by and let an insurgent leadership spurn our offer of peace and kill our young soldiers and threaten our new freedom." If her peace effort fails, Aquino vowed, she will not hesitate to take up the "sword of war." Like Abraham Lincoln, she said, "I understand that force may be necessary before mercy." Last week White House and State Department officials went out of their way to support...
Catliff has amassed five goals and two assists in his first two games. Last season's leading scorer, Lane Kenworthy, recorded six goals and three assists--in 15 contests. If he continues at his present pace, Catliff could threaten Harvard's single-season goal-scoring mark of 18, set in 1971 by Felix Adedeji...
...million, Japanese-built drilling rig pulled across the Pacific, intending to set it up near the Channel Islands National Park. But last week the California coastal commission refused for a second time to give Chevron the go-ahead, partly because of fears that a spill could threaten the park's brown pelicans. Chevron is appealing the decision to Secretary of Commerce Malcolm Baldrige. Meanwhile, the company is racking up $200,000 a day in towing charges...
After the U. S. arrests an alleged KGB agent, the Soviets threaten Correspondent Nicholas Daniloff with espionage charges. For Western reporters in Moscow, harassment is an occupational hazard. -- The crash of a small plane and a jetliner over...
Speaking at the third and final convocation of Harvard's 350th anniversary celebration, Bok said that demands placed on scholars by the government, corporations, and a knowledge-hungry public threaten to distract professors from their real goal of teaching and scholarship...