Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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This fear is shared by one-third of Harvard's Law Faculty members, who signed a petition against the proposed bill last Spring, and Charles P. Whitlock, who served for 12 years as Harvard's liason with civil authorities before becoming associate College dean...
When three investigators showed up last March to review Harvard's compliance with equal employment-opportunity provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, L. Gard Wiggins, administrative vice-president of the University, said he was confident that Harvard's current minority hiring program would satisfy the government...
...outbreak of civil war in Jordan vastly complicated efforts to free the hostages from what the guerrillas assured the world was humane captivity. At the same time, the shooting increased the confusion surrounding the negotiations for their release. At one point the International Committee of the Red Cross broke off talks, demanding that the guerrillas provide "more precision as to who was speaking for whom." Once civil war broke out, contacts were broken off completely...
Monitoring the civil war in Jordan last week, Cairo radio was unusually severe: "Egypt will not allow a Palestine maverick group to jeopardize the peace-seeking efforts of the Arabs." Moscow, too, scolded the guerrillas and warned Syria and Iraq, both Peking-leaning regimes, to keep hands off. As far as Jordan is concerned, the Soviets presumably would prefer even a monarchy to guerrillas who might wind up in Peking's corner...
WHILE Jordan's civil war set off a new and dangerous explosion in the Middle East last week, the primary fuse was still burning away ominously. As the 90-day cease-fire worked out between Israel and Egypt in August passed its halfway mark, chances of any resulting settlement were becoming increasingly slim. Israeli Premier Golda Meir, after conferring in Washington with President Nixon, again ruled out negotiations with the other side until Egypt agreed to "roll back" the Soviet missiles that were installed in the standstill zone along the Suez in violation of truce terms. Egyptian Foreign Minister...