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...Cancun last summer, aimed at dealing with North-South economic problems, met with only a promise from Reagan to seek further discussions. The Caribbean Basin Initiative, the president's impressive program to promote prosperity in Central America and the Caribbean, somehow got buried in the confusion of the lame duck Congress. Though targeted nations have received some aid, many more broad-range promises remain unfulfilled...
...life. When gold was discovered in the Black Hills in 1874, for instance, authorities looked away while prospectors dug on land owned by the Sioux. The sculptures of Mount Rushmore still speak with forked tongues to the large Indian population of the area. The late Lakota Chief John Fire Lame Deer claimed that the stone faces say, "Because we like the tourist dollars we have made your sacred Black Hills into one vast Disneyland...
Also lacking imagination are Irene Costello and Jeff Schantz's costumes, which, while featuring yards of lame and hundreds of sequins, are nevertheless ho-hum, large scale versions of the homemade costumes mom used to fashion for the kingergarten pageant. Notable exceptions, however, are the strangely abstract and witty outfits created for the Sun and the North Wind. In contrast to the generally amsicurish look of the costumes, Len Schnabel's set and lighting design is spare, elegant and very effective...
...hallmark of the late Mayor Richard J. Daley's administration. Backed by the city's large minority population. Washington will most definitely defeat Republican candidate Bernard Epton come April. And once the new administration takes office, the estimated 45,000 city employees who scratched backs with Daley and now-lame duck Mayor Jane Byrne may no longer be assured of a job and a fat paycheck each Friday...
Last December in the lame duck session, Congress tabled a bill that would have eliminated the mandatory retirement age, currently set at 70. The two sponsors of the bill, Sen. John Heinz (R-Penn.), and Rep. Claude Pepper (D-Fla.), are expected to re-introduce the bill this spring. Universities, particularly Harvard, are strongly opposed to the bill and have been successful in securing a conditional amendment exempting universities from the law for 15 years after the bill's passage. Crimson reporter Lavea Brachman interviewed Henry Rosovsky, dean of the Faculty, last week and conducted a roundtable discussion with Morton...