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...students protested recent Reagan administration proposals that would "ease restrictions on internal spying, tighten federal regulations on classified materials, and lend support to dictatorships, throwing our human rights policy out the window," Stefan Cluver, a junior who faces disciplinary action, said this week...
...tenants will stay radical; they're looking out for themselves. Even the bridges between the two groups are tenuous. Though David Sullivan led all CCA candidates at the polls two years ago, there were more than a few people accusing him of going to extremes when he tried to tighten the condo restrictions this spring...
...with the U.S.'s uncertain economic prospects. While officials of industrial nations were privately worried that the American high-interest policy would push their countries into a severe slump, delegates of the less developed, nations fretted over the impact in their own countries of a U.S. drive to tighten up on World Bank lending and perhaps even further reduce the American share of world economic development assistance. Said one Mexican delegate: "Washington is arguing that more private financing is needed, but interest rates are already too high for the borrowers to afford the loans anyway...
...tightened the valve a little more and then tried to tighten it quickly, and it popped off under heavy pressure," Geribo said...
Though no assault on Social Security benefits is anticipated to tighten the 1982 budget further, the President's economic advisers have little doubt that this politically sensitive program will have to be curbed in 1983 and 1984 if the budget is to be balanced. Since one-third of the Senators and all members of the House face elections next year, they are not likely to be receptive to any Reagan plans to tamper with Social Security benefits...