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...Harvard is forgetting another tested political adage. It's a lot easier politically not to give than to take away. Harvard's spurning of the third world center request wasn't killing a sacred cow so much as refusing to establish a new one. RUS and the Clearinghouse, on the other hand, are traditions, remnants of an activist era still remembered fondly. The University obviously feels anxious to do away with such nettlesome relics. But in picking a fight with Harvard's women, instead of being satisfied with the status quo, it may be getting into its own Vietnam...
After successfully leading a campaign last fall to change the name of Boylston St. to John F. Kennedy St., Mayor Vellucci moved on to bigger targets this summer, supporting a request for switching the name of the Charles River to the Kwa Na Ha Nee River...
...Hill also had cut out nearly $2 billion for defense from Reagan's request, while adding some $900 million for social welfare, including $211 million for a jobs program for the elderly, $217 million for student grants and $175 million for educational aid for disadvantaged children and the handicapped. During his August vacation at the ranch in California, Reagan received a memo from White House aides recommending he turn down the appropriations bill. The study also warned that it was unlikely his veto could be sustained, at least in the House. Despite similar forecasts from G.O.P. leaders on Capitol...
...have put it, was sore tried. Angered by U.S. criticism, Israel continued to withhold from the U.S. the military intelligence, including technical information concerning captured Soviet-made weapons, that it had gleaned from the fighting in Lebanon. Four days after President Reagan announced his peace plan, which included a request for a freeze on the building of new Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, the Israeli government stubbornly allocated $18.5 million for the construction of eight new settlements in the West Bank...
Last week's agreement outlines a complicated procedure by which the SEC in cases of insider trading is allowed to make a formal request for information to Swiss authorities through the U.S. Justice Department. Under the new accord, Swiss banks will now ask customers who wish to trade in American stocks to sign a waiver that would allow the banks to reveal their names if they are suspected of insider trading. Without that waiver, Swiss financiers, under the country's bank-secrecy law, would face up to six months' imprisonment or a fine...