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Amidst confusion over parliamentary rules of procedure, the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) yesterday pushed aside a request by the Gay Students Association (GSA) to include a pamphlet on homosexuality in next semester's registration packets and instead adopted a proposal to provide a second set of registration envelopes in which all official student groups may place information about their activities...
CHUL's decision angered more than 50 GSA members and other students who came to the meeting to protest discrimination against gays and lesbians at Harvard and to urge CHUL to accept GSA's request...
...researching the potential for valuable dig sites where the central artery highway project is underway. "We feel that there may be some artifacts of interest where the highway is being built into Chelsea," Barber said. "If it turns out that the area is one worth excavating, we will request permission for the project...
...twice smuggled Lady Diana aboard the royal train for love trysts. "There is not a word of truth in it," insisted a Palace press secretary. The retraction demand originated with Prince Charles, according to the spokesman, but the Queen also "wished this to be done." The highly unusual request indicated a special regard for Lady Diana and a strong desire to protect her reputation...
...would be saying that they expect the Polish economy to be nursed back to health by Moscow so that it will eventually be able to repay its loans. In the international financial community the prevailing sentiment is that the West cannot afford to turn down Poland's money request for fear of a more pronounced Soviet intervention in the country's internal affairs. Says Lawrence Brainard, a Bankers Trust vice president: "The real issue is what is the price of political stability in Eastern Europe." More broadly, the Polish problem seems certain to alert lenders to the dangers...