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Apparently, news of the changing political realities in Eastern Europe has not fully registered on Vietnamese officials. Citizens can still buy week-long "friendship tours" of various East bloc countries for only $200. According to a story making the rounds of Ho Chi Minh City, 37 tourists recently left for Czechoslovakia. They must have liked what they saw there, because only seven of them took the return flight home...
...truth the Reds are strictly a pickup team, and Ole L.U. is a seasonal setup on the Vassar College campus in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. The idea is to give selected employees a week-long immersion in exercise, self-improvement, competition techniques and the Lauder corporate outlook...
...closer to home, Harvard, too, indulged in the feel-good daydream and suffered for it. Most of the Class of '90 arrived in Cambridge days after he University's sprawling week-long party for its 350th birthday. Coming after the shamelessly commercial Los Angeles Olympic ceremonies and the orgiastic Statue of Liberty commemoration, Harvard spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on flag-waving majorettes, fireworks, concert orchestras and multimedia projections in The Stadium...
...India is indulging in genocide," charged Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto last week. She had just returned from a week-long tour of eight Middle Eastern countries, where she was seeking support for the Kashmiris' right to self-determination. While some Kashmiri militants favor an independent state of their own, Bhutto rejected that idea as "extremely dangerous." Kashmir's freedom, she insisted, was "the freedom to join Pakistan." In the process, she said, armed conflict with India could not be ruled out, "but we do not believe war is inevitable...
...help close the budgetary gap, graduates raised $3 million in a week-long telephone campaign, and started a rescue plan that would add $10 million to the college's $72 million endowment by doubling the yearly gift from the alumnae association. Last week Warren Hellman, chairman of the board of trustees, announced that Mills might not need to enroll male students after all. "You have had a lot of banners for us all week. Here's one for you," Hellman told a crowd of about 300 cheering women as he unfurled a banner that read MILLS -- FOR WOMEN. AGAIN...