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...joins Stanford University and the University of Wisconsin in ignoring similar orders to contain Soviet researchers. The Dartmouth reported last week...
After a year of lurching from one crisis to another, Reagan finally seemed to be on track with a sensible and well-rounded foreign policy initiative. His speech did contain a section of vituperation about the spread of "Marxist-Leninist dictatorships," but it did not stress the projection of military might. Rather, it emphasized the need for economic partnership and common goals among the U.S. and its Caribbean neighbors. "For over 400 years our peoples have shared the dangers and dreams of building a new world," Reagan said. "In this profound sense, we are all Americans...
...five months of negotiations, proposals and counter-proposals, the Faculty this week gave preliminary approval to a constitution for the new Undergraduate Council. The Faculty had previously refused to accept a constitution that reserved a certain member of student council seats for minorities, and the final draft did not contain a guaranteed minority representation clause...
Certainly it is not a streamlining of redundant, outdated criminal codes that we or others would oppose. Existing federal statues contain 70 separate provisions for theft, 79 different definitions of a criminal state of mind. Other federal crimes include interfering with the flight of Government carrier pigeons and seducing a passenger on a steamship...
...wife of the Senate majority whip, Alaska's Ted Stevens, occasionally uses convenient Secret Service agents as baby sitters for her six-month-old daughter. She once breast-fed her in a room beside a presidential banquet. Mr. Reagan signed a menu for the infant. Even board rooms contain more than the usual number of maternity business suits these days. The senior officers' dining room of a New York banking concern, where executives entertain clients at lunch, was recently over whelmed by pregnant women. Said one female executive: "They thought at first it was something in the coffee...