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...these kinds of problems are on the rise. According to the results of another NIMH study, the number of suicides among college-aged Americans has tripled in the last 25 years alone. Experts say the reason behind the increasingly high rate of mental disorders among young people are still unclear...

Author: By Gawain Kripke, | Title: You're Not Crazy, You're Just at Harvard | 3/20/1986 | See Source »

More troubling, it was still unclear whether the assassination was politically motivated. Police remained skeptical of claims by the West German terror group the Red Army Faction that it was responsible. Attention instead focused on activists from the obscure Kurdish Workers' Party, a group of political exiles from Turkey who, last August, vowed vengeance against the Swedish government for labeling them "terrorists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sweden Vanishing Face on a Quiet Street | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

Current Harvard rules allow professors to work for the CIA, but do not allow professors to submit to research restrictions when doing any work involving the university. It has long been unclear exactly what constitutes work involving Harvard and what the university considers "personal" work...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Bok to Review Problems of CIA Funding | 3/6/1986 | See Source »

...year to finish its CRR review, Cabot, Dudley, and Quincy House committee chairmen said they would reintroduce the question of how to respond to the university's invitation into the house committees. What the other houses will do in the wake of the Faculty Council's recent decision remains unclear...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: Quad Trio Nix CRR Delegates | 3/4/1986 | See Source »

...outdone, the Marxist regime of Angola hired Bob Gray's firm to front for it in Washington. Two years ago, Gray told TIME that he checks with his "good friend," CIA Director William Casey, before taking on clients who might be inimical to U.S. interests. It is unclear just what Casey could have said this time, since the CIA is currently funneling $15 million in covert aid to Savimbi to help his rebellion against the Angolan regime. Last week outraged Savimbi backers chained themselves to a railing in Gray's posh offices in Georgetown and had to be forcibly removed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peddling Influence | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

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