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...Working Group will request that Congress add funds for experimental programs and research in planetary exploration and environmental observation, more flight research opportunities on the space shuttle and satellites, and replacement of obsolete equipment...
...council's resolution will be submitted this week to President Bok, Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky, and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid L. Fred Jewett '57, along with a request for swift action on the matter, Council Chairman Sesha Pratap '84 said after the meeting...
Since then the friendship has suffered further strains. Begin defiantly and hastily rejected Reagan's peace plan last September. He totally ignored the President's request for a freeze on West Bank settlements, and only four days later conspicuously gave the O.K. for eight new settlements in the occupied territories. What especially infuriated U.S. officials was Israel's entry into West Beirut after the assassination of Lebanese President Bashir Gemayel. The move broke a pledge made to Washington, and created the conditions in which Sharon and his commanders could be held indirectly accountable for the Beirut massacre...
...Back in Washington the mood seemed hardly favorable to such a request. Some outspoken Congressmen feel that the U.S. should relax its longstanding support for the Salvadoran government and instead pursue power-sharing negotiations with the Marxist-led Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, a course the guerrillas have long advocated. Said New York Congressman Stephen Solarz: "There's a growing concern that our policy is leading nowhere...
...year-old institution in the Alabama town that bears its name. Three vice presidents have resigned in protest, and the faculty has twice passed no-confidence votes against the president, the last by a 3-to-l margin. In November, Funderburk refused the faculty's request that he step down. Matters worsened last week with the resignation of Wayne Flynt as chairman of the history department. Three days earlier, Gerald Johnson had quit as head of the political-science program. Said he: "I know that I could not in good conscience and integrity tell a young faculty member that...