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...October 22, In its first meeting of the term, the 1984-5 Committee on College Life hears a request from the clubs for more time to debate admitting women. They postpone their answer until their next meeting, in order to speak with the presidents and decide the merits of an extension...
...November 7: The Committee at its second meeting decides to give the clubs an extension of one more month, after which they must either decide to admit women or provide sufficient reasons for their request for exemption from the College's anti-discrimination clause...
...hang-up is on military spending. Stockman wants a reduction of $10 billion in the requested appropriation for fiscal 1986, $20 billion the following year and $30 billion in 1988. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger adamantly insists on a $333 billion request for 1986, which would be a 7% increase after adjustment for inflation. At a Thursday meeting in the White House, House G.O.R Leader Robert Michel and Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt got into what a Reagan aide described as a "heated" exchange with Weinberger. The lawmakers' point: Congress will not buy civilian spending cuts of anything like...
...part investigation, broadcast to viewers of ABC's World News Tonight last September, was bizarre by any measure. Scott Barnes, who has sometimes presented himself as a "paramilitary expert," claimed he had taken a job as a prison guard in 1983 at the request of the CIA to watch Ronald Rewald, a Honolulu investment counselor who is under indictment for defrauding approximately 400 investors of $22 million. Barnes said that the CIA then told him, "We gotta take him out." According to the ABC show, Rewald's company had provided cover for several CIA operations, including the arrangement...
Determining the truth of the ABC story may prove difficult because the CIA'S link with Rewald is murky. At the agency's request, a U.S. district-court judge in Hawaii has sealed all documents in a federal proceeding involving the investment counselor on the grounds of national security. CIA Spokeswoman Kathy Pherson says flatly of Barnes: "The CIA has never had any relationship" with...