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...Gerd Wilcke. The Pentagon is in a bit of a quandary since the two companies are the only domestic suppliers. Chemical-weapons opponents are discreetly gleeful. Said Congressman Dante Fascell, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee: "This incident should give the Pentagon a chance to rethink its posi-tion and support the President's own policy of chemical non- proliferation...
...numbers are staggering: According to the American Associa- tion of Medical Colleges, 36,727 studentsapplied to American medical schools in 1981. In1989, only 26,915 applied--a 27 percent drop overnine years...
Some activists say it was difficult to get students to travel to Washington so soon after last spring's march, which was the largest abortion rights tion rights demonstration ever...
...masters' new consensus removes a major stumbling block from the plan to change the lottery from its present form, which maximizes student choice. Last year, opposi- tion from some masters helped scuttle aproposal to reserve 25 percent of the places ineach house for random assignment...
Beyond the tweed coats, though, colleagues repeatedly point to Verba's ability to forge compromises where others see only polariza- tion as his primary selling point...