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Harvard will probably complete a multi-million dollar deal to purchase computer equipment within the next two months, administrators said yesterday...
...going to pronounce a new law that wherever Communism reigns against the will of the people the United States shall enter, then we are going to have some really terrible wars." She opposed U.S. reprisal attacks in Lebanon, where Britain had contributed 100 men to the 6,000-member Multi-National Force, and criticized Washington's decision to resume arms sales to Argentina...
...often blamed for the slow progress, last week expressed the hope that the leaders of those factions would soon resume their reconciliation talks in Switzerland. If those discussions are successful, they could pave the way for the eventual withdrawal of the Marines and the other members of the Multi-National Force in Lebanon. President Reagan reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to that force but suggested, for the first time, that the Marines would be pulled out if there ever were such a "collapse of order" that no peaceful resolution of the Lebanese conundrum could be achieved...
...Marines. The Joint Chiefs of Staffhave been working for some time on a plan to move them from the Beirut airport area to safer ground in Lebanon or to amphibious vessels offshore. Their place at the airport would then be taken by Lebanese soldiers, by other members of the Multi-National Force, or possibly even by troops from an as-yet-undesignated neutral nation. Within the Administration, some aides question whether the Marines are performing any really effective function in Lebanon. But the President is not prepared to pull them out in the face of Syrian military pressure...
Jackson, however, is equally critical of some big universities with mammoth sports programs, where winning becomes all-important. "Coaches treat athletes like workers who must perform," he says. "It's crazy to have a 16-and 17-year-old with the pressure of a multi-million sports budget riding on his shoulders...