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...reassure them. One Senator told TIME last week that the CIA director once went so far as to present a plan for a possible eventual partition of Nicaragua be tween a Sandinista regime in the west and a contra-ruled state in the east. Though the congressional committees cannot veto any CIA activities outright, they can, in Moynihan's words, "push and pull" the agency away from dubious schemes (as happened with the proposal to partition Nicaragua). Should that fail, the committees can secretly write into appropriations bills provisions for denying funds...
...Nicaragua's Pacific coast is on another order of magnitude altogether. A troublesome rift has opened in the nation's alliances, symbolized by a French offer to help sweep the mines from Nicaraguan waters. The U.S. has been put on the defensive in world forums, first casting a veto...
...Sandinistas on March 30 introduced a resolution in the U.N. Security Council denouncing the U.S. for "the escalation of acts of military aggression brought against" Nicaragua. Among America's friends, France and The Netherlands voted in favor and Britain abstained; the U.S. had to cast a veto. Nicaragua then announced, at the beginning of last week, that it had filed a case against the U.S. in the World Court in The Hague. The U.S. told that tribunal in advance that it would not recognize any World Court jurisdiction over Central American matters for two years. State Department Spokesman John Hughes...
Thus Harvard falls in line behind three other major research universities--MIT. Stanford, and Cal Tech--in opposing the proposed rules, which would amount to a basic subverting of long-standing University commitments to free and open inquiry. The Pentagon proposal would give government officials veto power over the publication of research results funded by the government and deemed to be "sensitive" from a national security perspective--an unacceptable proposition given University norms...
...right to move." Though NFL, commissioner Pete Rozelle predicted ruefully that the Davis decision would herald an era of "free agent franchises," he has refused to put the Irsay move to a vote, bowing before the Mammon of professional sport--money. An owner will be understandably reluctant to veto a profitable relocation when he may be the next to require his peers' approval...