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...optimistic messages were also intended to speed Aristide's return to Haiti. The U.S. military has not figured out precisely how to protect him from his enemies without at the same time becoming Haiti's palace guard. But ready or not, the figurative baton could be thrust into Aristide's hands as early as this Saturday, when the remaining military rulers, Lieut. General Raoul Cedras and Brigadier General Philippe Biamby, have agreed to step down. Last week the Haitian parliament approved an amnesty bill that will permit Aristide to grant the generals pardons as sweeping or narrow as he chooses...
...comments that Blacks are lazy are not to be taken at face value," Clarke said. "The thrust of her argument is to emphasize that some Blacks are not using their full potential...
...thing for the faculty-administration commission's recent Report on the Structure of Harvard College--we've heard most of it before. Still, we agree with the main thrust of the report: Teaching faculty should become more involved in college life...
...Little, Brown, we naturally jumped at it. The result appears in this issue, and it is classic Phillips: in-depth analysis, grounded in American political history and leading to provocative conclusions. Says Phillips, 54: "The American people are saying we have to change the current political system. The whole thrust of the book is that they're right...
Federal investigators have identified three possible reasons for the crash of USAir Flight 427 near Pittsburgh last Thursday, in which 132 people died. In addition to the mid-air deployment of thrust reversers, officials of the National Transportation Safety Board said that it was possible that the right engine came loose or that brakes were unevenly deployed...