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...Vice Provost for University Life George Koval released a statement saying the incident "raises questions about the manner in which the fraternity exercised the privilege of self-governance, of conduct without supervision." Koval's statement added that Penn President Sheldon Hackney and Provost Thomas Ehrlich approved the decision to withdraw recognition...
...normally a firm pro-European, arrived with all guns blazing. Referring to West Germany's reluctance to revalue, he asked, "What am I supposed to do with arrogant and uncomprehending people?" Unless the E.M.S. could be realigned to France's advantage, Delors threatened, France would withdraw, a move that would severely undermine what little European unity exists. Delors held 13 separate meetings with West German Finance Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg, some lasting hours, some just a few minutes. According to a West German insider, Delors's behavior was "beyond belief." He was said to have threatened, raged...
Dole failed by ten votes to kill Kasten's rider; Kasten failed by only one vote to end Dole's filibuster. The impasse was broken when Kasten succumbed to the heat from Senate Republican leaders and agreed to withdraw his rider, in return for a promise that he could attach it to trade legislation due to come up for action next month. The Senate then quickly passed the jobs bill; the $5.1 billion appropriation must now be reconciled with the $4.9 billion House version...
...past 35 years, signed a five-year agreement on economic, scientific and cultural cooperation. Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, informed Lebanese President Amin Gemayel that he would pull his forces out of Lebanon whenever the Lebanese government requested it. (Previously, the P.L.O. had said it would withdraw only when Syrian forces did.) Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak met with Jordan's King Hussein and Arafat, who had ostracized Egypt when President Anwar Sadat signed a peace treaty with Israel...
...Richard Wirthlin for accepting a polling contract from Americans who sympathize with the Palestine Liberation Organization and scoffed at National Security Adviser William Clark as "living proof that still waters can run shallow." Safire has repeatedly criticized the Administration as acquiescent on foreign policy, particularly for its pledge to withdraw military support from Taiwan and its lifting of sanctions against construction of a natural gas pipeline from the Soviet Union to supply Western Europe. Says he: "I am a hard-liner and a hawk. When Reagan caves in, I berate...