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The Faculty finally closed the meeting by passing a resolution supporting the principle of coeducation--not a huge concession, considering the Faculty had been teaching co-ed classes since the 1940's. But they backed off from wholehearted support of the merger, claiming it would be imprudent to take a...
The Council made one minor concession to CUE. The committee asked the University to publicize the meager study abroad options which Harvard does offer. This year, for the first time, the Council had the University print a pamphlet on study abroad and enclose it in students' registration packets. Students requested...
NATIONS DON'T WORK THAT WAY. They are proud; even when they wish to change their posture they hesitate to do so publicly, admitting previous error. The PLO also gets much of its funding from radical Arab states and would only reluctantly break ranks. Finally, acceptance of Israel would be...
Leaders of the PLO say privately they are now resigned to accept Israel's existence as a fact of life. For example, PLO head Yasser Arafat told visiting American black leaders last month he supports a U.N. resolution that, in part, "provides for the sovereignty of all states" in the...
Rabin had many extraordinary qualities, but the gift of human relations was not one of them. If he had been handed the entire U.S. Strategic Air Command as a free gift, he would have (a) affected the attitude that at last Israel was getting its due, and (b) found some...