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...eight Ivy League schools agreed to the mailing date change after a request last summer by the Consortium on Financing Higher Education (COFHE) to provide admitted students with more time to select the college of their choice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Admissions To Mail Letter 5 Days Early | 4/3/1985 | See Source »

Reagan strove to be as tactful on economic issues as Alfonsin was on political questions. The U.S. President chose not to reply directly to Argentina's most immediate plea for U.S. assistance, a request for a $500 million "bridge loan" to help the country ride out the debt crisis. But Reagan did assure Alfonsin that, as a U.S. official later put it, "we stand ready to help where we can." Later, Reagan aides expressed skepticism that the U.S. could or would do much on the debt question. "He would like our support," said one U.S. official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy Celebration and Concern | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

...widows and children under 16. The Secret Service, true to its name, is tight-lipped about the nature of the protection, but allows that agents are assigned 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to guard Nixon (protection for his wife Pat was dropped last year at his request), Gerald and Betty Ford, Lady Bird Johnson and Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter (Amy is 17). The Secret Service grudgingly admits that the cost for protecting former Presidents and their families last year was $10.7 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dropped Guards | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

...break came last week after Geagea's militiamen refused a government request to dismantle a checkpoint and toll station that they maintained on the coastal highway to the north of Beirut. The commander of the Lebanese Forces, Fuad Abu Nader, 28, promptly removed Geagea from his post. Geagea's ouster, supported by Syria, quickly stirred dissension within the Lebanese Forces. Abu Nader tried to end the rift by announcing that in the future the Lebanese Forces would function independently of the Phalange Party, but his move came too late. Geagea's militiamen had already seized several Lebanese Forces barracks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon a Country Out of Control | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

...Linden St. According to Olive's of 302 Newbury Street in Boston a stion specializing in styles for Black people. Black people men are favoring body wave perms and are favoring body wave perms and are shaving close to the scalp-as close as a quarter inch. Younger men request shorter sides and a flat...

Author: By Andrea Shen, | Title: What's New in Hair | 3/19/1985 | See Source »

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