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...Buckley is staying in shape in case the delicate knees of Grogan and Cavanaugh give way. His running ability is well-suited to the Canadian Football League, which is played on a wider field with three downs instead of four. The Calgary Stampeders, who have had more than their share of quarterbacking problems this season, own his Canadian rights and have mentioned the possibility of bringing Buckley north for a 14-day trial...
...Gulf of Sidra, which indents about a third of the Libyan coastline, as an internal sea. In some cases, a nation's sovereignty over a body of water is indeed recognized by international agreement, provided that the mouth of the bay or gulf concerned is no wider than 24 miles; the mouth of the Gulf of Sidra is more than ten times as broad as that. No other nation, not even the Soviet Union, recognizes the Libyan claim...
...years since the Camp David accords were signed by Egypt and Israel, negotiations for a wider Middle East settlement have remained deadlocked...
Arms control should be a component, but no longer the centerpiece of U.S. policy toward the Soviets. Says the report: "We cannot hope to achieve at the negotiating table what we are unwilling or unable to achieve in the wider world of defense policy." Negotiating limits on weapons would make the strategic situation more "predictable" and slow the pace of arms spending. But the commission could not agree on whether SALT II, a treaty now in limbo, should be revised-with major amendments-so as to become SALT III, replaced with a more modest agreement, or passed with only minor...
...response to the act, Harvard has either completed or drafted plans for all the required renovations of buildings and facilities, which have included the installation of ramps, elevators and wider doors. Dorothy Moser, consultant to Harvard's Program for the Handicapped, says. The establishment of the disabled student shuttle service and the soon-to-be-completed Lamont Library handicapped resource room represent Harvard's efforts to go beyond federal standards to accomodate the 43 self-identified disabled students here and to help many others, Moser adds. The required renovations--all part of an approximately $1-million project dubbed "the transition...