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Most of the rule changes deal with the creation of tougher standards of discipline for schools, players and coaches found in violation of NCAA rules...
...show extreme displeasure. State Department Spokesman Bernard Kalb declared that the two incidents raised "the most serious questions" about South Africa's recent actions. The U.S. response, the angriest since Ronald Reagan became President, could be a sign that the Administration is responding to domestic pressure to take a tougher stand on South Africa. Both the House and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have called for economic sanctions against the country...
...feds are trying to crack down, however. A bureaucratic struggle between free traders in the Commerce Department and Pentagon officials appalled by high-tech transfer has been resolved by the Reagan Administration in favor of tougher export controls. The military won the right to review export licenses, and has blocked sales like the shipment of machinery to test concrete strength to the Soviets, on the grounds that the equipment could be used to help harden missile silos. Since 1981 the Customs Service's Operation Exodus has stopped at the docks some 4,000 illegal shipments abroad, including crates destined...
...nation the annual commencement rite climaxed a season of . other ups and downs in academe. Protest was up, including more than 1,700 arrests at Cornell and Berkeley in demonstrations over university investments in corporations doing business in South Africa. At some big state university systems, grades were down: tougher standards cut the number of A's more than 4% at Cal State and 3% at Penn State. Old-time values were up: University of Wisconsin-Madison students voted Mom and Dad their No. 1 heroine and hero (runners-up: Mother Teresa and Jesus Christ). Law school and medical school...
During camping excursions. "All the kids that were cool in the project, tougher than everybody else, were just as scared out in the woods as anybody else," she says. "It's really nice to just see them treating each other like people." The program, which was financed by PBH, culminated with an outing to Vermont and a tour of Montreal...