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...have attended graduate schools. His solution is for universities like Harvard to encourage young minority group members to enroll in graduate schools. But the President's own package of policies--from aid cuts to looser federal regulations--would actively discourage such enrollment. Already those cuts have taken their toll. The College's most recent applicant statistics suggest an alarming drop in the number of poor applicants; needy students, many of whom were doubtless minorities, evidently were scared off by the Administration's aid cuts...
Rodgers' 35 career marathons may have taken their toll on the 34-year-old runner, too. But he claimed that the experience he has gained by running so many races will give him a psychological advantage...
Economic analysis also doubt that the shaky Argentine economy could support a full-scale war. Recent reports indicate the Falkland invasion has already taken its toll in higher interest rates and greater stock market instability. Britain has frozen crucial Argentine assets, and the Argentinians can no longer turn to British banks for massive loans as they have in the past. Buenos Aires must also expect a widespread international response, especially from Common Market countries, if they wage war or try to hold the Falklanders hostage until their demands are met. Britain's allies in Europe have already banned the sale...
Ferndale and Harper Woods, nine miles from downtown, are battered. Although the death toll is low, at least a third of the population of 43,000 of the two towns have been wounded. In front yards, suburbanites watch tree trunks smolder. Because the havoc is not total, the prospect of civil disorder may be great. Hospitals are intact, with doctors on duty and painkillers in stock. But from all over the city, 600,000 injured are begging or simply seizing the tiny supply of medical aid. Hysteria spreads as drivers crowd all three major highways leading from...
...Namibian border into the rocky terrain of the Cambeno valley, some 15 miles away in the southwestern corner of Angola. Then, supported by helicopter gunships, they destroyed a secret, unfortified supply base manned by an estimated 250 guerrillas of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO). The toll: 201 guerrillas killed. Only three South African soldiers were lost...