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Thus last week's meeting opened in an atmosphere of apprehension. On the first day, the seven leaders listened attentively to reports by Howe and the Eminent Persons Group, a body headed by former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser and General Olusegun Obasanjo, the former Nigerian head of state, which...
Private roadways are common enough in the U.S., but private expressways are another matter. Last week a group of businessmen announced a plan to build a 200-mile, four-lane private toll road that would link the Colorado cities of Fort Collins and Pueblo. Since no Government funds would be...
Nonetheless, the Thatcher government faces a meeting of the Commonwealth on Aug. 2, at which Britain is likely to find itself a minority of one on the subject of sanctions. Last month, after a visit to South Africa, some members of the Commonwealth's Eminent Persons Group declared that the...
Beyond the mechanical fixes, however, is the need to retool NASA. The consensus in Washington and the aerospace community alike is that NASA needs to be stripped of its near monopoly over U.S. space operations and returned to its former pre-eminent role as a research-and-development agency.
Consider the internship program. Rather than talk with the people of South Africa, who Harvard was ostensibly trying to help, the University prescribed their own solution to the problem of apartheid. And when students and faculty revealed that the program did not meet the needs of Blacks, Harvard ignored their...