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Mocanu seemed to have gotten sense of school pride just in his three-day visit. "New Haven is smoggy--I can't live there no matter how much airconditioning they have--and Princeton is like party time in the wilderness. This is a serious school," says the Ohio resident. "It's probably the only university where people argue over lunch. They actually get upset over defending their beliefs. This is an important place...
...final straw for Duvalier may have been his anxiety over the annual pre- Lenten carnival that was to begin this week. For Haitians, the three-day Mardi Gras festival is a time of orgiastic release, when they can momentarily forget their cares. Ordinarily Baby Doc would have joined in the festivities, but a boycott of the carnival called by his opponents was gathering momentum. The President, sniggered residents of Port-au-Prince, would be the laughingstock of a carnival to which no one came. On the other hand, any crowds that did form would be a danger to his regime...
...Palestinians, as well as the Syrians and Lebanese, had been attending a three-day meeting in Tripoli of what Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi called the Allied Leadership of the Revolutionary Forces of the Arab Nation. Representatives of 22 Palestinian and other Arab organizations had been called together for a meeting at Gaddafi's stronghold, the Bab al Azizia barracks. The purpose: to demonstrate radical Arab support for Gaddafi in the face of U.S. naval maneuvers taking place off the Libyan coast. The delegates, who included Habash and Jabril, duly approved an eleven-point resolution proposing, among other things, the creation...
While the parade of speakers preached to the converted about the Soviet threat, support for the President's Strategic Defense Initiative and states' rights, the overall theme of the three-day meeting, "Looking Toward the 1990s," reflected the conservatives' robust confidence in the future of their movement. Speakers and delegates alike credited Reagan with having permanently changed the national agenda to make the conservative voice not just relevant but dominant. "The country is in an antiliberal mood," said Howard Phillips, chairman of the Conservative Caucus. "Ronald Reagan has ridden this trend." The rightward tilt of young voters, who chose Reagan...
Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, who teaches at the K-School and the Graduate School of Design, estimates that one-half of the former's faculty has gone on one of Heifetz's three-day retreats. Gomez-Ibanez says the seminar helped him understand and appreciate his unusual teaching methods. Of the course's strategy, he says "some things can't be told but have to be experienced...