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...only from the P.L.O., but from key moderate Arab states such as Saudi Arabia and Jordan. To avoid such an outcry, and the adverse impact it could have on the U.S. role as a broker in the general peace process, was the reason Washington originally had wanted to sponsor its compromise resolution. It might head off a stronger Arab resolution and also be viewed as a positive gesture by Arab states. It was thus hoped that both Israel and the Palestinians would accept a formula that would have built upon or expanded 242 by somehow affirming Palestinian rights...
Only five years ago, tennis was booming. Top players were getting seven-figure contracts to play with pro teams, big companies were fighting to sponsor tournaments, and TV networks were broadcasting even routine matches. On the amateur level, a game that could claim just 14 million adult regular players in 1972 had by 1976 some 26 million participants eager to invest in such paraphernalia as fluorescent balls, designer outfits, $30 shoes and $62 carbon steel racquets. Now the game has gone soft, at least as a business...
UCAN is also planning to sponsor an alternative energy fair, rally, and concert in cooperation with student anti-nuclear groups this fall, Dottie Lewis, business manager for the Psychology and Social Relations Department and one of the organizers of the group, said yesterday...
Five persons affiliated with Harvard are helping to sponsor the benefit. Alvin F. Poussaint, associate dean for student affairs at the Medical School, is on the concert's support committee. Other Harvard sponsors are Courtney B. Cazden, professor of Education; Ruth Hubbard, professor of Biology; Chester M. Pierce, professor of Education and Psychiatry at the Medical School and School of Education; and Peggy Stern, an officer of Harvard's Education for Action Program...
...assembly also acted as a social organizer, sponsoring a number of dances and parties, including the Boston-Boston disco dance, where administrators and assembly members locked horns over the assembly's right to sponsor such a schoolwide dance. Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, said the assembly should have asked permission before planning the party, and expressed concern over possible injuries and University liability. Assembly members retorted they were not responsible to the University. Out of this controversy grew the assembly resolution to seek provisional recognition from Harvard. Assembly members also plan to rent a train to take Harvard...