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...First Blood, the unappreciated Rambo was goaded into waging a one-man war against National Guardsmen in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest. In the sequel, after a stretch in prison, he moves from a surrogate Viet Nam to the real thing. At the request of his former commander (Richard Crenna), Rambo takes on a dangerous reconnaissance mission to search out MIAs in Viet Nam. Sure enough, he finds some in a supposedly deserted prison camp, guarded by sinister Vietnamese and their evil Soviet overlords. But his mission is sabotaged by the top military brass, who want to close...
...principal Navy contractor. Included were diamond earrings and a jade pendant (combined value: $1,125), cleaning bills for the admiral's suits ($1,871), chauffeur charges for 504 separate trips ($16,200) and food and other amenities amounting to $12,000, including such oddities as a long- standing Rickover request for 30 to 50 pounds of fresh fish at the launching ceremony for each new General Dynamics-built nuclear submarine...
Aware of Israel's opposition to the Jordanian request, Republican Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts garnered the support of 67 other Senators last week for a nonbinding resolution to ban sales of advanced arms to Jordan as long as it "continues to oppose the Camp David peace process and purchases arms from the Soviet Union." That move, declared a frustrated Shultz, was an attempt "to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye." The Administration argued that now more than ever, as he pushes for peace, the King needs the weapons...
...meeting also failed to clear up what Paris regards as serious contradictions in other West German positions. Kohl, for example, has accepted President Reagan's request to set an early date for a new round of global trade-liberalization talks. Mitterrand has balked, arguing that such negotiations would invite U.S. attacks on West European farm policies and high agricultural tariffs. Finally, the French decry West Germany's refusal, at European Community agricultural-policy negotiations in Brussels three weeks ago, to accept cereal-price reductions that would hurt West German grain farmers...
...Administrative Board--the College's established disciplinary body--which, though secret, clearly represents the will of the administration. The CRR, an arbitrary group of seven Faculty members, is fully independent, has no established, accepted guidelines, and answers to no official or institution. Moreover we condemn the CRR's request that students act as judges of their peers...