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...them shoot their way into the -government? No dice!" That was the crisp response of Secretary of State George Shultz last week as he traded views with members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee over the nettlesome issue of El Salvador. For what seemed to be the umpteenth time, some of the committee's members, led by Republican Congressman Jim Leach of Iowa and Democratic Congressman Stephen J. Solarz of New York, had suggested that the Reagan Administration agree to negotiations on power sharing between the beleaguered Salvadoran government and opposing Marxist-led guerrillas...
...their own land-based, silo-busting warheads. For the sake of deterrence, the U.S. needs a credible capability to attack hardened Soviet military targets. Therefore Congress should continue to fund the development of the MX missile, even as it sends the Pentagon back to the drawing board for the umpteenth time to figure out a place to put it. That would mitigate the embarrassment for the Administration, and indeed for the nation, of cancellation of the entire program. Killing the MX missile outright would be particularly imprudent at a time when the U.S. is trying so hard to keep...
...that pretty much says it all about this year's Law School extravaganza. Summery Proceedings. There's certainly no evidence that anyone's screwed the set designer this year, but the theme remains, as always, the potentially deleterious effects of legal education on otherwise decent people. And for the umpteenth consecutive winter, no one from outside the Law School community will find the show at all entertaining...
There are no plans to send American combat troops into action any place in the world." For what seemed to be the umpteenth time, Ronald Reagan gave that assurance last week about the limits of U.S. involvement in Central America. But even as he once again cleared the air, Reagan further obscured it. The President saw no point in telegraphing any of the other moves that Washington may have in mind to deal with a region that is stubbornly aboil with Marxist-inspired insurrection, and where the Administration feels that vital U.S. interests are at stake. As Reagan...
Recommending a delay for what one member calls the "umpteenth time," the committee drawing up the new constitution in accordance with the Dowling Report decides that Yale students have in the past been under-represented in Harvard student government. The committee grants the New Haven undergraduates one-sixth of a vote and permanent observer status, but it refers to the Finance Committee the question of round-trip bus fare to and from Connecticut...