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Later, the hijackers offered to free 20 of the passengers in return for fuel, but that request was rejected at Kuwait's insistence...
...think the call for neutrality might be alittle excessive," Flynn said yesterday. "I think[the resolution without the neutrality request]would still have meaning...
...names of the Confederate dead alumni to the inscriptions in Memorial Hall, some faculty members are still calling for the names to be inscribed. Many are confident that the wounds of the conflict have long been healed and must be put in perspective; this is the third request to add the Confederate names since Mem Hall was completed more than 100 years...
Faculty critics of the request argued that honoring those racist rebels would be a slap in the face to Blacks and to dead Union soldiers. For many, 123 years after Lee's surrender, the Civil War scars still remain. And maybe they should...
Last week President Reagan announced that the U.S. would withhold $6.5 million in fees collected by the Panama Canal Commission and scheduled to be paid to the Panamanian government this week. The money was held, said Washington, at the request of Delvalle, whom the U.S. continues to recognize as Panama's President. Reagan also suspended trade preferences that will affect $96 million in commerce between the U.S. and Panama. There will be no "business as usual" with the Noriega regime, the President said. Secretary of State George Shultz argued that a severe economic squeeze would force Noriega out. Other officials...