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...want to see what happens when a Harvard football team currently 2-2-1 meets a Yale team currently 0-5, have your ticket request to the Harvard Hall basement by 5 p.m. today. Student tickets are $10, with an accompanying sent available for an additional...
Belatedly, Bignone tried to defuse the explosive situation. After an appeals court acted on the government's request that the case against the central bank president be dropped, González del Solar was freed and flown back to Buenos Aires aboard the President's personal F-27 jet. Bignone meanwhile had gone on national TV to reassure citizens. Gonzalez del Solar's imprisonment and the looming default, he said, were "inconveniences everyone knows about...
...chosen an unusually mundane one of hamburger with mustard, French fries, iced tea, water, and nothing else. His court-appointed attorney, Charles Carver, arrived, and they talked of his legal prospects. But both knew there was little hope. The day before, the U.S. Supreme Court had turned down his request for a stay. The time for his execution neared. "He was prepared," recalls Carver...
...gulag prisoners has sharply declined since the 1940's but slave labor remains an active component of the Russian work force. Growing evidence suggests that the Soviets used forced labor in building their Siberian gas pipeline to Western Europe. According to a Central Intelligence Agency report prepared at the request of the Senate, more than 100 labor camps dot the pipeline's route. The United Nations International Organization has publicly accused Moscow of employing slave labor on the trans-Siberian pipeline: and French and West German leaders have expressed deep reservations about the alleged Soviet behavior. Concluded Under Secretary...
...Raab's request, however, the Administration has the unique opportunity to pursue a human rights policy without the tinge of a political double standard and without significant economic costs. Indeed, the real hypocrisy lies in turning a blind eye to our own federal statutes and internationally recognized norms of labor relations. Moreover, this failure threatens our credibility as human rights advocates. The Soviet items included in von Raab's proposal (automobile parts, clothing, camera lenses, wire fences, and mattresses) represent an insignificant part of U.S.-Soviet trade. A ban on such imports, especially if coordinated with our allies, might substantially...