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Cambridge Police arrested the attacker, Joseph Rodenmacher of 80 Jackson Circle, at the scene and charged him with assault and battery with a deadly weapon...
That the University now may be willing to divest from tobacco companies to protest their unethical business dealings in other countries seems to be an immense inconsistency. Harvard should wield its influence as a stockholder to influence the tobacco companies--even though it still hasn't used that weapon to retaliate against companies for their involvement in the apartheid state...
...achieved the first agreement reducing nuclear arms, which a freeze would have precluded. Dukakis responded that back in 1982, Bush waffled somewhat on the freeze and insisted it should not be a partisan issue. Bush also attacked Dukakis for wanting "unilaterally" to do away with such weapons as the MX and Midgetman missiles. "When we are negotiating with the Soviet Union, I'm not going to give away a couple of aces" beforehand, he asserted. Dukakis retorted that Bush was refusing to make the hard choices among different types of military spending that the nation's budget stringencies mandate...
...unrest so far in Armenia and the % neighboring republic of Azerbaijan. The show of force indicated that Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was eager to halt the regional conflict, which has become an embarrassing distraction from his goal of reforming Soviet political and economic life, as well as a potential weapon in the hands of his enemies...
...Islamic law, or Shari'a, but it has yet to be passed in parliament. In the meantime, the fighting has forced at least 500,000 southerners to flee to Khartoum. Each side in the civil war has accused the other of manipulating food shipments to famine victims as a weapon to gain support in the conflict. A Christian member of parliament complained that even after the floods "food was distributed in the mosques while those who complained were left standing in the water...