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...Capitol Hill, however, House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. (D-Mass.) said calls and telegrams to his office were showing public resistance to Reagan's request to send money to the Contras fighting the Sandinista government in Managua...
...Administration has offered a simple rationale for its aid request: only through the "two-track approach," a combination of military as well as diplomatic pressure, can the Sandinistas be forced to permit the democratic pluralism that was promised by their 1979 revolution and end their support for Communist revolutions elsewhere in Central America. To persuade Congress that he was in fact pursuing both tracks, and to underscore the connection he sees between the Philippines and Nicaragua, the President last Friday appointed as special envoy to the region Diplomat Philip Habib, who had hours earlier returned from his troubleshooter mission...
...state-of-emergency provisions have been more successful in limiting press coverage. Charging that the presence of cameras and tape recorders incited violence in the townships and conveyed negative images to the outside world, the government banned such equipment from emergency areas and required reporters to request permission to enter these zones. The press was permitted to cover the Alexandra funeral, which was attended by several leading activists, including Winnie Mandela, wife of jailed A.N.C. Spiritual Leader Nelson Mandela, but cameras were still prohibited. The CBS journalists say they will appeal their expulsion. But even if they are allowed...
Evidence of the brain ban emerged early this year. A French importer complained in the Paris daily Liberation that a routine request to import the delicacy (called cervelles and served braised in France's fashionable ! restaurants) drew a protracted silence. "No one seems able to answer our requests," said the importer. Simultaneously, authorities in France's southwestern Pacific territory, New Caledonia, began rejecting other foodstuffs from New Zealand, including 500 tons of potatoes and 60 tons of beef and mutton...
...report suggests creating a Judiciary Board which would replace the CRR, take over almost all of the Administrative Board's powers, allow students open hearings upon request, treat disciplinary cases of student, faculty and administrators on an equal basis, and bring credibility, student participation and due process to Harvard's disciplinary system, according to the report's authors...