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...collapse of the Schmidt government by forming a new partnership with Kohl's Christian Democratic Union (C.D.U.) and its sister party, the Christian Social Union (C.S.U.). Now, just five weeks before West Germans go to the polls in national elections on March 6, the missile issue has been thrust into the forefront of the election campaign. The debate has clouded Kohl's early prospects of victory and may subject West Germany to a siege of serious political instability...
...southern Cook County, Ill., by a car carrying four men. One of them pointed a 12-gauge pump shotgun at her, ordered her to strip and then to climb through a barbed-wire fence at the side of the road. As she begged for her life, her assailant thrust the shotgun barrel into her vagina and fired. After watching her agonies for several minutes, he finished her off with a blast to the throat. Less than an hour later, the marauding motorists stopped another car and told the man and woman inside it to get out and lie down...
...whole thrust of this policy is to make technology transfer policy, to take innovation here and get it turned into things that can benefit the public," says Steven H. Atkinson '67, executive secretary of the University Committee on Patents and Copyrights, which was formed in the mid-1970s to coordinate Harvard's ties with industry...
...past several years, a severe decline in federal funding for research has prompted universities to seek alternative sources of money primarily in the private sector. This new thrust to forge relationships between schools and industry, however, carries with it a potential threat to academic freedom. What educators most fear is that researchers will be diverted from the fundamental quest for knowledge to work only on projects resulting in profitable and marketable products...
...next day, however, the House promptly rebuffed any interpretation that it was opposed to the general thrust of the President's record arms buildup. It shouted down attempts to eliminate $3.9 billion for production of the B-1 strategic bomber and $3.5 billion for one of two new nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. It passed the $231 billion defense appropriations bill for fiscal 1983, $48 billion more than this year's military outlays, but $18 billion less than Reagan wanted...