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A presidential commission recently recommended reinstating foreign language requirements in high schools and universities and developing a network of centers devoted to international studies.
The President's Commission on Foreign Languages and International Studies urged funding for the establishment and support of 200 campus and 65 to 85 national centers of international studies.
Most schools would benefit if they comply with the report's foreign language recommendations, Wilga M. Rivers, coordinator of instruction in the Romance Languages and one of the Harvard faculty members who made presentations at the commission's hearings, said yesterday. But she added she believes "the inventive grant is...
"It took the Kemeny Commission months of testimonies, and reviews to pass judgement on nuclear power," Bok said, adding "the ACSR should not try and get into this kind of decision-making."
...Winston Churchill's and a Minister Without Portfolio in the Thatcher government. The Governor will be accompanied by a staff of British civil servants, a small number of soldiers and a British police official, Sir James Haughton, who will oversee the Rhodesian police. A British election commissioner will organize the voting. Carrington also intends to establish a cease-fire commission on which the military commanders of both factions would be represented under the chairmanship of a British general. Elections will be held two months after the cease-fire takes effect, possibly as early as February...