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...exchange for getting him back, the Justice Department has agreed to drop an indictment charging Park with 36 counts of assorted crimes, including bribery, mail fraud and failing to register as an agent of a foreign government. But Park could still risk jail should he commit perjury in his interrogation; and Leon Jaworski, the House Ethics Committee's Special Counsel, is persuaded that that fact will encourage him to tell it like...
...inducing cells to "commit suicide," a Harvard Medical School researcher has stated he may develop a treatment for two, and possibly three, forms of cancer by the end of the year...
...Palestine Liberation Organization's official agitators around the world say that all the murders they commit by themselves and by hired murderers are done to establish a Palestinian state in the areas now administered by Israel. This is clearly false--for 19 years (1948-1967) they sent murderers to kill innocent and unarmed people...
...Council of Eco nomic Advisers: "There seems to be some belief that you can exorcise this state of business mind by mass psychotherapy. But you can't because the attitudes are not irrational. When you are uncertain about the environment for investment, then you will not commit your money, just as someone will not run in the middle of the street blindfolded." Otto Eckstein, head of Data Resources Inc., a Boston-based, computerized economic-forecasting firm, thinks that executives' caution should not even be described as "lack of confidence," but rather as "business realism...
...recruitment effort this year, as in past years, has been a long trail of disappointments' and frustrations because of the admissions office's refusal to commit itself to Third World students. This year's budget, like everything else concerning student recruitment, was acquired after a long struggle. Still, the budget was insufficient to cover all the areas that needed to be covered. Later the office had the gall to require that some staff travel come out of the student budget. The students were entangled in an increasing web of bureaucratic responsibilities. Endless letter writing, continuing deadlines, forms of all types...