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Saturday, Harvard's only number-one ranked teams--the men's and women's squash squads--upheld their ranking by capturing the national championship and Ivy titles...
...technicalities about what is and is not a foreign mission and simply banned both offices outright. They went down in a spray of self-congratulatory press releases: KEMP DECLARES A VICTORY IN WAR ON TERRORISM, GRASSLEY WINS IN FIGHT AGAINST P.L.O., and so on. A federal district court has upheld the Washington office closing, and the Justice Department seems determined to shut the New York office on schedule next month...
Last week a three-judge panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in California dismayed the Reagan Administration by doing just that in the nettlesome debate of the military vs. homosexuals. In 1980 the court upheld the Navy's discharge of three people accused of homosexual conduct. In 1981 it ruled against a soldier who charged the Army with selective prosecution because the military antisodomy law was not being enforced in heterosexual cases. This time, however, Judges William Norris and William Canby sided with openly gay Sergeant Perry Watkins, 39. They said the Army had improperly refused...
...career Army man, he admitted "homosexual tendencies" when he enlisted in 1967, at 19. Later he worked during off-duty hours, with his commander's permission, as a female impersonator. In his job rating, he was regularly praised for spit-shined professionalism. Although previous investigations had upheld Watkins' right to stay in the Army, regulations were tightened in 1981. Since Watkins' 1984 discharge three years short of retirement, he has had trouble finding work and has filed for bankruptcy...
Waldheim yesterday claimed without giving specifies that "parts of the report do not correspond to the facts but are built on presumptions and hypotheses. For that reason, the conclusions drawn cannot be upheld...