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...Corporation could point to a "token privatemeeting" with Council members as proof of itsresponsiveness to student concerns, said Kim B.Ladin '87-88, who was a member of the SouthernAfrica Solidarity Committee last year when thegroup began the drive for open meetings, "I wouldreally hope that [the undergraduaterepresentatives] would limit the agenda to gettingan open meeting," said Ladin...
...contract in the West can never be more than a dream. Because the Communist Party exercises indirect control over cultural life in the bloc countries, even mild expressions of political dissent can be enough to deny sports stars as well as rock singers a passport. By the same token, mediocre talents boasting party membership often jump to the front of the line for jobs in the West. Explains a young Czechoslovak tennis player in Prague: "Here sports and culture are all part of politics...
...BULK of the expense for the conference was paid for by the Luxembourg government, said Shustorovich, who added that "additional funding...came from private and government sources. A token amount was also donated by Harvard...
Foot said his group was forced to renovate its current facilities because it no longer complies with safety and sanitary codes. As a result, the YMCA may have to reduce the number of spaces in its lodging program from 138 to a token number...
...Reagan Administration, to the relief of some of its own members as well as numerous Europeans, saw an opportunity to retreat from the controversial zero option and to reinstate the interim solution, with token missile deployments in Europe. U.S. negotiators tabled a response that seemed quite close to the Soviet proposal: each superpower could keep 100 INF warheads in Europe, but with some Pershing IIs permitted...