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...declared the National Citizens Com mittee for Broadcasting, a TV watchdog group, in a recent statement calling for the overhaul of commercial television-licensing procedures. Over the two decades since major television channels were first assigned by the Federal Govern ment, renewals of three-year broadcast licenses have been almost automatic...
...N.L.F. simply declared itself to be a legitimate government, betting on the fact that in such cases, historically, legitimacy belongs to the ultimate victor. State Department Spokesman Robert McCloskey dismissed the new govern ment as "the same old wine in a new bottle," but experts in Washington and Saigon agreed that the change was not without point. The N.L.F. is plainly trying to upgrade its status from revolutionary cabal to one of parity in the world's eyes with the existing Saigon government. Instant diplomatic recognition came from 15 countries?including North Viet Nam, Cuba, North Korea, Algeria...
Curiously, the Cabinet may be even less important under Pompidou than it was under De Gaulle. For although the imperious general ruled France, in many areas he failed to govern it. Many of the details of his policies and much of the routine administration did not interest him, and he left such matters to his ministers. That is not likely to be true of Pompidou, who is a superb administrator and has already told his inner circle that he intends to govern as well as rule...
...succeed in destroying the bureaucratic system, but it is an open question whether he can now create an alternative system through which he can govern China and promote its industrialization. At present, he must rely largely on the army to help him run the country. Outside China, Maoism commands the allegiance of only one ruling party, in Albania, and a handful of insignificant parties (including those in New Zealand, Burma, Thailand). But Maoist factions and splinter parties exist in many countries, and Mao has become a hero to the New Left...
Along with Rockefeller, a former president of the Board of Overseers, four other men who have helped govern Harvard received degrees: George P. Baker '25, dean of the Business School, who received a Doctor of Laws; Dr. Robert F. Loeb, a former Harvard Overseer and professor of Medicine at Columbia, who received a Doctor of Science; James B. Fisk, a former Overseer who is now president of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, who also received a Doctor of Science; and A. James Casner, Weld Professor of Law, and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Law, who received a Doctor of Laws...