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Although Butterfield's vision of China is bleak, he never degenerates into spite. The approach is factual and dispassionate, the work detailed and well-documented. Butterfield's conclusions are not the result of one or two conversations, but of dozens of interviews, penetrating observations, and a deep understanding of Chinese traditions. He compiles an impressive array of contacts and uses them well, giving us not a blind and hateful rejection of Chinese communism, but a precise analysis of its problems...
...pilots to aid the Iraqi air force, and Iran said last week that 400 Egyptian troops were fighting alongside Iraqi forces. The assistance was supposedly intended to help ease Egypt back into the Arab fold, by which it has been ostracized since the Camp David agreement. But in spite of the losses incurred, neither side seems ready to make the concessions necessary to resolve the conflict. With the tragic end of Benyahia's mission last week, peace seemed as distant as ever...
...been the Falkland Islands' good fortune to have lived under British rule for 150 years. It is a pity that all South America has not had the same fate. In spite of being a Latin American, I recognize what the British have given to the world: freedom, life under law and respect for the individual. These rights must be defended even if it takes warships...
...vice-president Jonathan L. Handel '82 said that in spite of student and faculty support for the GSA that has come in the wake of Pattullo's original letter. "We have not heard a single positive word out of University Hall on gay student...
Other faculty echoed Rosovsky's optimism over Marius' report, in spite of the extra burdens it could place on section leaders...