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...explanation for this unprecedented attack on the country's traditions of free and open debate is national security. But, as Lecturer on the Core Program Sissela Bok has observed, such efforts to suppress information usually weaken a democratic society--rather than strengthen it. "Short of turning an open society into a garrison state," she wrote recently in the Crimson, "it will simply not be possible to restrict trade, scholarship, scientific exchanges, publication and news reporting enough to achieve the desired society...
Stressing informal handing of harassment complaints, as the proposal before the council does, without including the bolstering force of a central office, promises no improvement over existing procedure Most likely, it would actually weaken existing channels--clearly inappropriate in light of the University survey released last fall indicating widespread sexual harassment...
Sendero's biggest opportunity for mayhem and disruption will come when Belaúnde's successor is selected in a two-stage election next spring. The continuing violence, combined with the economic crisis, threaten to weaken further Belaúnde's center-right Popular Action Party, which was badly defeated by leftists in last November's municipal elections. Yet even with the economy collapsing around him and bombs going off regularly, Belaúnde's remains ever optimistic. "I have great faith in the future of Peru," he says. Still, for the architect of Peruvian...
More specifically, Mondale is increasingly hammering Hart on foreign policy. In Chicago last week, he accused Hart of advocating a strategy that "threatens to weaken our crucial alliances" because it would involve reducing the number of American troops in Europe "in an undefined and perhaps substantial way" in order to build a stronger U.S. Navy. Hart wrote in his book that the U.S. should make naval superiority over the Soviet Union its "first priority" and added, "We could not afford to do that while maintaining our Army in Europe at its present size." He called for a new "division...
...international package that would lead to Namibian independence. Yet they have also speculated that South Africa might let Toivo out of prison as a means of causing a split in SWAPO leadership. If that is the case, the South African government could not have chosen a better time to weaken the guerrilla organization: negotiations for Namibia's independence could begin at any time...