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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Michael Downing '80, vice president of the Harvard-Radcliffe group, said Saturday and participants would "pool their resources to establish a basis of knowledge, both liturgical and theological...
...enormous gap between rich and poor within underdeveloped countries, and because of the gap between rich and poor nations, a policy intempered by considerations of equity, promoting unfettered competition, would tend to widen the income gap. Any advantages that did come about would flow to the small group which already own land and capital...
...early and mid-'60s saw the society's heyday; Life,, in its "Washington Report," said the society was engaged in "a massive shift from a semi-clandestine political guerilla force to a quasi-respectable pressure group," devoted mostly to withdrawal from the U.N., exposure of the civil rights "fraud," and the impeachment of Chief Justice Earl Warren. Then Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy '48 placed the group "in the area of being humorous." But Sen. Barry Goldwater (RAriz.), in a comment that would haunt him in his presidential bid, said, "I am impressed by the people...
...beginning of the end of the society's national prominence came in 1965, when the Republican Party steering committee, still smarting from the Goldwater "extremism in the defense of liberty" fiasco, condemned Welch and his group. Welch had offended nearly everyone by then, especially with his call for complete and unilateral American withdrawal from Vietnam in 1965. By Welch's peculiar reasoning, Communists were running both sides of the war, and the United States was paying for it. A last gasp of attention came in the late '60s, as a result of a campaign more renowned for its slogan than...
...either group appeals the State Supreme Court's decision, which is expected in several months, the case will go to the U.S. Supreme Court and would affect Harvard's policy...