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...report goes on to outline the proposed International Studies concentration. Nye proposes that the concentration require three years of a foreign language, courses in a foreign country's culture and social sciences, plus one semester of working abroad. Nye also recommends that the College provide students with more opportunities to work abroad...
Among the options Thatcher is considering are accepting invitations to lecture in the U.S., Europe and Japan; writing her memoirs; and founding her own political think tank. A Thatcher foundation would not lack funds, since her memoirs could fetch as much as $8 million, plus an additional $2 million for serialization rights. "I am sure it would command one of the highest prices ever paid for a political memoir," says Lynn Nesbit, a literary agent based in Manhattan who counts Jimmy Carter among her clients. Other publishing insiders even suggest that Thatcher's autobiography would fare better...
CREDIT: From a telephone poll of 1,000 adult Americans taken for TIME/CNN on Nov. 27-28 by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman. Sampling error is plus or minus 3%. "Not sures" omitted...
...evict Saddam's soldiers from Kuwait, with selective air raids on military targets in Iraq. But those supposedly "surgical strikes," all sources agree, could quickly escalate to a massive aerial bombing campaign carried out by 700 American attack planes flying out of ground bases in Saudi Arabia and Turkey, plus 200 more taking off from the six aircraft carriers the U.S. will have stationed in the region...
...initial targets will be the Iraqi air force and its bases -- perhaps 20 of them, plus around 60 missile sites that will have to be taken out. Iraq is believed to have 400 to 500 operational combat planes, including 30 to 35 French-built Mirage fighters and 110 to 140 Soviet-made MiGs -- all first- line, modern warplanes equipped with air-to-air missiles and some electronic-warfare gear. Some might be destroyed on the ground, but a good many would probably get into the air to give battle. One estimate is that they would be able to shoot down...