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About a quarter of the state's representative districts, including Cambridge, Somerville, Watertown and Brookline, will be vote on a proposition to sense military aid to EI Salvador, Honduras, and Guatamala and to withdraw support from the Nicaraguan "centers...
...would expect the Syrians to agree that, following our withdrawal, they will not extend their presence in Lebanon, that they will discourage terrorist activities against Israel and agree to U.N. forces replacing us. If the Syrians do not understand that it is to their advantage for us to withdraw, we will remain where we are. I do not expect the Syrians to withdraw completely, but perhaps partially, because they are trying to control Lebanon, an uncontrollable country. What they are trying to do in Lebanon is to gain leadership in the Arab world, and to show that they have forced...
...next arguments which Bok attempts to make were all dealt with and refused at length by the Advisory Committee. Bok argues that Harvard's divestment alone would not have the effect of forcing U.S. companies to withdraw. This is, of course, true, as the ACSR acknowledge. But we must consider not merely the individual effects of Harvard's divestment, but the cumulative effect of divestments all over the country. If all that mattered was the result of the individual action, who, asks the ACSR, would ever write a letter to a senator...
DESPITE SUCH governmental assurances, however, religious leaders continue to view the Moon ruling with deep suspicion. They are disturbed by phrases such as "legitimate church activity," especially in light of the recent Bob Jones University case. In that case, the government wanted to withdraw Bob Jones' tax exemption unless they changed their practice--which stemmed from religious beliefs--of forbidding interracial dating. Last year the Supreme Court ruled that the IRS had the power to rescind the tax exemption, on the basis that the school's stance defied "public policy...
Murphy's return to Syria suggested to some that Assad might be amenable to a U.S.-brokered Israeli withdrawal. It has generally been assumed that Syria felt it had nothing to lose in seeing Israel mired in Lebanon. Some Western diplomats in Damascus contend, however, that Assad now fears that the growing violence against the Israelis in southern Lebanon may trigger a retaliatory attack by Israel against Syrian troops. These diplomats do not believe that Damascus has dropped its demand that Jerusalem unilaterally withdraw its soldiers and disband the Israeli-supplied Lebanese militia that helps patrol the region. Syria...