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These sentiments are reflected in the strain between Washington and Seoul over how to deal with Pyongyang. For decades, South Korea and the U.S. both treated North Korea as the enemy. But in 1997, with the election of pro-democracy activist Kim Dae Jung as President, Seoul changed course. The...
Undergraduate organizers originally questioned the decision to house graduate students on Cowperthwaite Street, saying it would further isolate Dunster and Mather Houses from the rest of the undergraduate community.
Folsom's attempts to isolate gang leaders have failed, so when violence flares, authorities have been forced increasingly to use the single blunt tool at their disposal: confinement of all prisoners to their cells. During such "lock-downs," inmates are released only for a ten-minute shower every other day...
Throwing his opponents off balance is typical for Marcos, who, as former Philippines Foreign Minister Arturo Tolentino, a dissident member of the K.B.L., puts it, "has always looked at political contests in a military way." Only three weeks ago, Marcos denied firmly that he was contemplating any sudden election move...
Administration officials were considering the options of putting a bounty on the hijackers' heads or planning some kind of retaliation. Washington had attempted to "isolate" Beirut airport with an international boycott. But only British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher expressed any sympathy for the proposal, and even she said she would...