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...president of Boston College has withdrawn his reprimand to a BC professor for writing an open letter to the BC student paper. The professor's lettter criticized the growing emphasis on "Big Money" athletic at the college...
...reprimand was withdrawn last week after the professor apologized in a written letter to the paper...
...must "consult" with Congress beforehand, if time permits. Third, after the use of force has begun, the President must inform Congress within 48 hours. Finally, 60 days may pass, during which time the President has control over the forces, but at the conclusion of which ther forces must be withdrawn unless Congress has specifically authorized action...
...House did take some action on Grenada, passing by an overwhelming 403-to-23 vote a resolution that would apply the War Powers Act to the troops on the island and require that they be withdrawn in 60 days unless an extension is granted. Since Reagan announced last week that the withdrawal was already beginning, the vote was motivated mainly by a desire to assert Congress's disputed authority under the War Powers Act rather than actually to direct Administration policy. Far more indicative of Congress's attitude was the favorable action taken on the fiscal 1984 defense...
...scrap 1,400 existing warheads in Western Europe during the next five or six years. The weapons are part of the alliance's stockpile of tactical nuclear arms, which many experts feel are obsolescent and redundant; they would join 1,000 old warheads that have already been withdrawn in anticipation of the deployment of the 572 new missiles...