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...separation of places for the needy and the rich could also have a detrimental effect upon the academic quality of the GSAS. If the decrease in support funds force many more needy students to abandon graduate plans and the lack of merit-oriented scholarships sends the best students to other schools, Harvard could lose both ways...
...Israel also will be sorely tested, as the State Department's large pro-Arab contingent, the oil companies and others push for a policy more congenial to the sheiks. Says Professor William Griffith, a Middle East specialist at M.I.T.: "People are not going to urge that we abandon Israel. But you'll hear more and more statements to the effect that the U.S. should moderate its Middle East policy and should pressure Israel to abandon the conquered territories...
Egypt First. President Sadat and the men around him are nationalists, not Nasserists. Their revolution is over. "Unlike Nasser, Sadat does not lead us to the brink and then abandon us. He has a plan about where he wants to take us, and it is realizable," says an Egyptian editor. Above all, the Egyptians are proud that Sadat is following an Egypt-first policy and that he has defined Egypt's national interest. In contrast to Nasser, who was dedicated to a vague ideal of Arab unity, Sadat is trying to lead the Arab world by pursuing specific economic...
...were denied by government sources in Tokyo, TIME learned that Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani suggested to the Japanese ambassador that in order to be classed as a "friendly" nation, Japan should break relations with Israel. Tanaka told Kissinger that to get supplies, Japan would have to abandon its formally neutral stance for a pro-Arab policy, and asked for U.S. understanding. Kissinger urged...
After nine days they had to abandon the raft and squeeze aboard Lucette's 9-ft. fiber-glass dinghy. Using a makeshift sail and guided by stars, the dangerously overloaded craft headed north across the equator, where Robertson hoped to intercept the shipping lanes to Panama...