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Crehan said his Harvard affiliation did not affect his campaign "because most people just though of me as a kid in the neighborhood interested in politics and figured they'd give me a chance...
...land mines. But resourceful handicraft is limited by backwardness. In a rebel village one evening, during prayers, two dusty field radios were pulled from under a bed; the battery cavity of each was being used as a repository for prayer beads. Inadequate weaponry and supply does not seem to affect the fighting spirit. "It is all in a man's thinking," explains Guerrilla Leader Chandra Khan. "You look in that corner and see 'only three Kalashnikov rifles.' I see three Kalashnikovs and three dead Russians...
...issue: the 236,000 dependents of American soldiers and airmen in Europe, most of whom live in West Germany. In an effort to curtail the number of dependents overseas, Congress has imposed a ceiling on the number the military can sponsor. The congressional scheme would not affect cost of living differentials, PX privileges and other routine fringe benefits given to all overseas personnel. Rather, it would sharply curtail the number eligible for family transportation and resettlement allowances. As a result, many servicemenespecially among lower rankswould find they simply could no longer afford to bring their dependents...
Most of the chipping away at the taboo is still cautious and limited. Says John Money of Johns Hopkins, one of the best-known sex researchers in the nation: "A childhood sexual experience, such as being the partner of a relative or of an older person, need not necessarily affect the child adversely." Money and Co-Author Gertrude Williams complain in their forthcoming book Traumatic Abuse and Neglect of Children about the public attitude that "no matter how benign, any adult-child interaction that may be construed as even remotely sexual, qualifies, a priori, as traumatic and abusive...
Officials at Harvard, Boston University, Northeastern University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said yesterday they do not believe the order, announced Monday, will affect any of their students. Edward Gill, a spokesman for the Boston office of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, said it is "highly unlikely" that there are any Iranian students in the Boston area with military or diplomatic status...