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...policy designed to achieve what one British diplomat last week described as "stable instability." Moscow wants neither peace nor a fourth round of full-scale war, but rather a situation of churning unrest that would finally shatter whatever influence the U.S. still has with the Arab states. That would allow Russia to become the dominant power in the region. The Soviet policy rests on two premises: 1) a reasonably astute use of Russian weapons and tactics by the Arabs; and 2) a disinclination on the part of the U.S., Israel's last major armorer, to provide more arms...
...Sociologists Simon and John H. Gagnon in a jointly written paper, "and what appears to adults as unreasonable, is that the prize be located at the top of the Cracker Jack box, not at the bottom." Another attraction, they add, is that drugs can screen out reality and allow the youthful user to withdraw to the private sanctuary of his self...
Premonitory Power. Educated at the Sorbonne by Claude Levi-Strauss and armed with an encyclopedic historical knowledge, Renata Adler refuses to allow her writing to slant. The Susan Sontagalongs land at Hanoi or at the movies, seeking a geometry for their preformed conclusions. The Mary McCarthyites seem to go against the grain simply because it is there. Adler maintains a gyroscopic balance-and gets the work done. That work, at its best, has a premonitory power. The best article is last, a report on the National New Politics Convention in Chicago. Gouts of words, pollutions of principle, corrosions of politics...
George W. Goethals, lecturer on Social Relations, wanted residence and course requirements reduced to allow accelerated graduation on the basis of examinations alone. "Four-year college is essentially a kind of trap," Goethals said. Goethals also had some suggestions on General Education. (See sidebar...
Dudley-which was selected by lottery along with Quincy House to elect the two upperclassmen on the new committee-chose Michael A. Tobias '71 to the committee with the stipulation that he serve only if the committee will allow charged students to make their hearings public...