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GSAS administrators said this week the plan will work because they are going to crack down on students who don't pay tuition. "We will be much tougher now than we were in the past," McKinney said, alluding to the University's financial trouble...
...Russians want to create a tougher Arab position vis-a-vis Israel because that will mean less possibility of moving toward peace. In the Arab Middle East it is well understood that the military option goes via Moscow and the political option goes via Washington. The more the situation is pushed toward the military option, the closer the Arab countries will come to Russia. I hope the U.S. understands this and continues to strengthen Israel militarily and economically; this makes the military option more difficult and brings the Arabs who have any sense back to the political option...
Such gentle prodding could easily turn into tougher tugging if the ratification process continues to stumble slowly along. Certainly, a rank-and-file rejection of the contract--the first such grass-roots referendum ever in an autocratic union that has had the likes of John L. Lewis and W.A. (Tony) Boyle as its advocates--might prod Ford to choose his option of an 80-day, back-to-work, cooling-off period under Taft-Hartley instead of beginning the complex negotiation and ratification cycle again. Whether the miners--a group of workers who, by virtue of the very interdependent nature...
Sanders said yesterday he expected Silver to have another good season, but thought that he would be facing tougher defenses this winter...
...Evidence. The federal statute involved is a tricky one. Although shooting someone deprives him of his rights to life and liberty, it is necessary to prove not only the consequence of the illegal act but the purposeful intent to commit it in violation of constitutional prohibitions-a tougher standard of guilt than that required in a murder trial. Prosecutors were able to show that the Guardsmen had used "excessive and unjustified" force, but, said Battisti, who acted before the defense had begun its case, "the Government has presented no evidence bearing directly on the intentions of [the] defendants who fired...