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Hardly a government in the Arab world does not contain at least one Cabinet minister who is a graduate of the 117-year-old American University of Beirut. Despite nearly a decade of civil war and continuing turmoil, the university has remained a bulwark of learning and an island of relative tranquillity in a scarred and anguished city. Last week it also became a monument to the senseless terror that besets all Lebanon. Its president, Malcolm Kerr, 52, whose life had been devoted to Arab culture and education, was shot dead by two unknown gunmen, apparently for no reason except...
...fact, he adds, at its top capacity one video disk will be able to contain the equivalent of 500 volumes of law books...
...both Congress and the Administration there is talk that these recommendations could be put into effect only by stuffing them all into an omnibus bill that would contain something for legislators of every ideological persuasion. In his weekly Saturday radio broadcast, Reagan announced that he would submit "a comprehensive plan for achieving the objectives set forth by the commission" and gave it not one but two names. Formally, and grandly, it will be called the Central American Democracy, Peace and Recovery Initiative. Reagan is unofficially calling it the Jackson Plan, after the late Democratic Senator Henry Jackson of Washington...
Those grand findings should ring melodically in Ronald Reagan's politically attuned ears, for they totally conform to his views about runaway federal spending. Unfortunately for his Administration, they also contain jarring criticisms about how he is managing the Government. The conclusions are the work of a task force of 162 corporate executives* and their staffs, which toiled for 18 months turning out 2,300 pages on Government inefficiency. The group finished last week with the claim that it had pinpointed ways in which $424.4 billion can be saved in just the next three years...
...three P's of Raiders football," according to Matt Millen, their analytical linebacker, "are pointing, pushing and penalties." Yet, remembering the Raiders' visit to Washington 14 weeks ago, Redskins Receiver Art Monk cannot contain his delight. "Pushing, shoving and fighting," says Monk with a sigh. "That was the most fun I ever had in a game." Washington won, 37-35, but everyone involved looked forward to another day, and here it is. Next Sunday the XVIIIth greatest spectacle created by man will break fresh ground in Tampa...