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...putting military pressure on the Communists while inviting them to the negotiating table. Yet Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile seemed to undercut that two-pronged approach by stating that it would take a "miracle" to produce a political solution. Aquino and Enrile denied persistent rumors of a serious rift between them, and the two made several joint appearances. Enrile did say that he might run in the next presidential elections...
...restaurant in Jakarta. Pizza Hut is in Buenos Aires. And foreigners have it our way at nearly 2,000 McDonald's (pace Dwight). Stopping for a Big Mac in Singapore, says a young customer, is "like walking into a bit of America." Last October in Kenya's rugged Rift Valley at the foot of a remote volcano, nomadic Maasai gathered for a rare tribal ceremony. Young warriors' heads were shaved. An ox was ritually slaughtered. And at the edge of the encampment, a concessionaire sold Coke by the bottle...
While the tenure decisions themselves may or may not have been correct, the fact that a majority of the faculty is angered over how these decisions came about points to poor leadership by Dean of the Law School James Vorenberg '49. Yet rather than seek to heal the rift, Vorenberg decided to grease the appointment wheels by stacking the tenure committee with conservative stalwarts. The result, not too surprisingly, was to further divide the faculty...
...hope, Gates indicated, was that the new liberal policies would bridge a widening rift between the agency and academia. But key Harvard officials, including President Derek C. Bok and Vice President for Government Affairs John Shattuck, said the changes did not go far enough toward eradicating secrecy and censorship when scholars conduct research...
...four of the armed services. But here too the government is divided. Aquino's 26-member Cabinet includes both military hard-liners like Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile, the architect of martial law during the Marcos regime, and human rights activists who wish to investigate alleged army offenses. The rift between the civilian and the military factions has been seized upon by the Communists as yet another reason not to accept Aquino's invitation to disarm. "How can she secure her share of responsibility in the negotiations," says Communist Party Founder Jose Maria Sison, "without having full control...