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...workers there a cent since the two-month old strike began. The Yale corporation faces great and growing pressure from the thousands of faculty and students who bear that brunt of the strike but are nonetheless without a voice in settling the dispute. The union's case has received wide-spread coverage in the media, and the case they've made is a very strong one. Yet despite' forceful criticisms, Yale seems intent on starting down the public outrage...
What he found was a country much changed from the Somoza days. This time, McGinn says, he witnessed wide-spread enthusiasm on the part of the people. "It was clear that the people in the street were supportive," he says. "Now they could get health and educational services. The government was offering political participation and it appeared very democratic...
...conventional warfare. These criticims are a large political embarassment to the "get tough" Reagan team, already facing Congressional opposition to proposed defense funding increases. The relative preparedenss famine in times of Pentagon plenty must be attributed in large part to inordinate expenditures on nuclear over conventional forces and to wide-spread waste...
...ever-controversial Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz has become embroiled in another spat--this time with a Wall Street Journal reporter who wrote a story alleging wide-spread student dissatisfaction with his teaching...
...Reagan vows that those responsible for the Beirut bombing "will pay." This means more U.S. troops to Lebanon to serve as Israel's cat's pew and shore up the rule of the Phalangist gangsters. The SYL's call for "Marines out of Lebanon now and alive!" evokes the wide-spread anti-government outrage at Reagan's squandering of life in Lebanon which revives memories of the Vietnam war. However, unlike the reformist left which cries "No more Vietnam!" because they don't want another losing war for U.S. imperialism, the SYL says Vietnam was a victory! For Marines...