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Goal No. 1 was achieved last September when the last of Vietnam's 200,000 combat troops returned home -- though some have apparently returned to bolster the faltering Cambodian army. As for Goal No. 2, it never made sense for Washington to support a three-part coalition that included the Khmer Rouge while decrying the possible return to power of Pol Pot's forces. With last week's unequivocal shift away from the Khmer Rouge, the U.S. Administration finally brought strategy and policy into line on Goal No. 2, paving the way for movement on Goal...
SINCE THE FEDERAL government ordered the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) not to fund any work considered "obscene," Harvard has done nothing substantial to combat constraints on freedom of expression...
Several discerning audience members mumbled "Come on, that's bullshit" when certain characters miraculously survivied several violent attacks. But for the most part, the ever-realistic gunplay and hand-to-hand combat scenes yielded a fairly unified chorus of "Oh, shit" and "Yeaaah...
Because cases like Becky's and Pamela's are so difficult to sort out, they have become this year's combat zone. In the fight to win over the ambivalent majority of Americans, the pro-choice movement is on the wrong side of parental consent: 69% of adult Americans favor laws requiring a teenage girl to get her parents' permission before having an abortion, according to a TIME/ CNN survey. Similarly, pro-lifers lose support over rape and incest: 84% of those polled believe the Government should pay when a rape victim needs an abortion and cannot afford...
Diestel said that harboring terrorists was Honecker's "personal hobby." The former East German leader, recovering from cancer surgery, issued a stout denial of all the charges, insisting that East Germany "did its share" to combat terrorism...