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...Harvard "understand" depends a lot on the group. Few students seem to relish the idea of planning a massive protest, or, for that matter, a crawl-in. Last year those with the power or means to accomplish their goals through a little quiet lobbying seemed more than willing to resort only to that...
...refraction of college admissions, one where only the least promising, the worst and the dumbest, are allowed entrance. But there is, surprisingly, broad expert agreement that a large minority of people going to prison do not deserve that special bruising. Like war, imprisonment should be a government's last resort. It is too precious a resource, too expensive and damaging, to waste on the run of criminals...
...Chicago-based Tribune Co., estimated that losses could more than double in succeeding years. Unwilling to battle that trend, the Tribune Co. put the paper up for sale last Dec. 18. After three fallow months, the company announced that Texas Wheeler-Dealer Joe L. Allbritton was "buyer of last resort." But when Allbritton demanded a wage rollback and a one-third slash in the $190 million payroll, union leaders balked, and the "last resort" disappeared. Everyone braced for the final step in a grim scenario that had been played out in Washington (the Star) and Philadelphia (the Bulletin), and that...
...Palestinians who arrived Saturday by sea. The Tunisians had been busy last week erecting a tent village near Béja, 60 miles from Tunis, for the guerrillas. They were also refurbishing the Salwa Hotel at Borj Cedria, 16 miles southeast of the Tunisian capital, so that the tourist resort might serve as either a temporary or permanent headquarters for Yasser Arafat and 100 or more of his colleagues. The hotel contains a luxury suite for Arafat, a not altogether appropriate residence for a man of spartan taste who sometimes prefers to sleep on the floor. Arafat's movements...
...diverse Christian militia groups during and after the 1975-76 civil war. In June 1978, Gemayel's forces lashed out brutally against former President the Suleiman Franjieh, who was one of his chief political opponents among the Christian population. In a lightning raid on the Franjieh summer resort village of Ehden, Phalangist soldiers murdered the ex-President's son and political heir Tony, along with his wife and two-year-old daughter. Gemayel coldly dismissed the episode as a "social revolt against feudalism." And in July 1980, Gemayel's troops virtually wiped out the Christian militia...