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This is the thrust of a one month extension proposal made by Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan (D.N.Y.), which passed the Senate yesterday Rep Solomon has opposed this extension because he says it would subvert the intent of the law insteal of providing colleges with more time. However, if the law is to be carried out currently--it is only non-registrants who should be deprived of aid--not those who get caught in a bureaucratic snafu. In fact, Moynihan supports the bill but understands that if the Department of Education is going to do something, it should be done right...
...Soviets are, of course, mindful that West Germany is their principal Western trading partner. Annoying as he may have been to them, Kohl knew he was dealing from a position of strength, and he left no doubts about the thrust of West German foreign policy. Said a Soviet diplomat, with an air of resignation: "We have to put the emphasis on long-term relations despite the serious problem of the missiles...
...quit. He shied from sentiment as a "fatness of feeling" and recoiled from sex: "Coitus is the punishment for the happiness of being together." He could write only about what he knew, and what he knew were his dreams. "My talent for portraying my inner life," he noted, "has thrust all other matters into the background...
...face of it, things are not that complicated. The thrust of the tenure system administrators have said, is to ensure the widest possible effort to recruit the very best in a given field. To this end, an elaborate system of checks and balances in place since the 1930s, has been created regard against "insidership" and to make sure candidates are judged strictly on their merits as scholars and teachers, not their political skills. (Some professors maintain, however, that the tenure process in certain departments have mailed the budget process on Capitol Hill...
...decorated with white-and-red Polish flags, yellow-and-white papal pennants and portraits of the Pope and the Black Madonna. As John Paul rode past in the white Popemobile that had been brought from Rome, a wave of emotion surged through the crowd. Some Poles openly wept. Others thrust their fingers defiantly into the air in a V sign and chanted "Solidarnosc"and "Walesa...