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...institution under tighter academic governance or to obtain a divorce. Tensions between the Stanford faculty and Hoover flared last year over a proposal to locate the Reagan presidential library on campus. When the faculty senate asked that the planned structure be scaled back, Hoover Director W. Glenn Campbell angrily withdrew the project and announced it would be built in Southern California...
...Police withdrew from around the mill in the afternoon. About 120 strikers and 50 family members and friends then had an emotional meeting at the plant gates...
...people know the United States will fight." The Administration properly used military force in Honduras to bolster Tegucigalpa's morale and to deter further Nicaraguan incursions across the border. In essence, we stuck out the American chin and dared the Sandinistas to hit us--and it worked, as they withdrew this week without destroying the main contra supply cache...
...come up with a more perfect exercise in the use of military coercion. The territory of our treaty ally was invaded by her expansionist Soviet-bloc neighbor; the United States sent in troops as a warning that a deeper invasion would provoke the retaliation of our forces; the enemy withdrew without reaching its objective that threatened American national interest. It would all have been perfect, except for meddling by the Democratic congressmen who invited Managua to enjoy its Spring Break in Honduras...
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras--Nicaragua withdrew its soldiers from the Honduran border yesterday and declared an end to fighting while it holds true talks with Contra rebels, according to reports from all sides...