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...following suggestions seem to be partinent: The Harvard community has insufficient knowledge about South Africa. There is a real need to disseminate up-to-data information in the New England area. No institution on campus is fulfilling that function. To remedy this, a South African center should be established at Harvard...
...Welch) whose firm grips on their own careers make someone as passive as Dorothy look like a relic of a previous century. The achievements of such women do not contribute anything to the major philosophic or epistemological issues of our time, as models and entertainers that is not their function. They are simply in business within a free market economy. Their careers need neither inspire nor offend anyone. Armed with this independent outlook. Stratten could have become president of her own "company" (i.e. her professional self) and ruler of her own life; instead, she became one man's pawn...
Representative Dave McCurdy of Oklahoma asked Kelley why there were so many Marines in one building, considering that "in the Middle East, terrorism is just as much a function of their use of power as our use of the M-l tank." Kelley defended the arrangement, saying that the four-story concrete structure had been chosen because it had withstood the Israeli siege last year. But Representative Sonny Montgomery of Mississippi, who led an eleven-member House contingent that traveled to Beirut a few days after the blast, said it had been immediately clear to his group that the setup...
Perkins, friends and colleagues say, proved and able conciliator--"smoothing over any differences," as one HHD official says, and getting the institute back on track in its primary function of research and advising third-world countries on development strategies...
...should anyone care about this? Many people might assume that the press was protesting against its exclusion out of a prurient or even commercial itch, annoyed at missing some sensational headlines and pictures. That is simply not the case. The press has a serious quasi-constitutional function as a representative of the public. Obviously the White House or the Pentagon remembered the Viet Nam "livingroom war" and the revulsion it created. Obviously they admired and envied Margaret Thatcher's dealing with the press during the Falklands invasion, when the Iron Lady's government allowed only a small contingent...