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...EXAMPLE, there has been far too little meaningful discussion of issues Saturday night's protesters should have addressed--the second-class status Harvard accords the Afro-American Studies Department, the astonishingly low black enrollment in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University's inability or unwillingness to implement a significant affirmative action plan. Harvard appoints committees to study issues like these. Sometimes--as in the exclusion of Ewart Guinier '33 from the committee planning the DuBois Institute--with dissenting voices screened out in advance...
...against city officials and officials of the State Civil Service Division, claiming the blacks were being denied promotions "due to the racial practices and policies of the defendants." The blacks seek a court order to have all eligible black patrolmen promoted to sergeant and to force the city to implement a "affirmative action" plan for police recruitment and promotion...
...reasons for optimism. Last week, two senior members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, New York Republican Jacob K. Javits, and Rhode Island Democrat Clairborne Pell, flew to Cuba, ostensibly against the wishes of the State Department. The two Senators had originally informed the State Department--which continues to implement the U.S. policy of non-recognition of Fidel Castro's government--of their desire to make the trip in April. Their request for clearance was rejected in August, according to a Javits aide. Only last month did the Department, though continuing to maintain that it was opposed to the mission...
Perhaps the new President, convinced by the uproar over his predecessor's policies in Latin America, has decided that the time has come to implement detente in this hemisphere. Though Ford took a standard rightist line toward resumption of diplomatic relations with Cuba while serving as House minority leader, there is no reason to doubt that he might not alter his stance, as he did on both China policy and the amnesty issue. It is reasonable to think that Ford is aware that the continuing exposure of American intervention in Chile can only hinder U.S. foreign policy. By allowing Javits...
...press, permission to run candidates or the freedom to hold open rallies in support of those candidates--all provided for in the Paris accord. Yet the United States supports Thieu with economic and military aid, both of which will be increased in the next year if Congress doesn't implement its new foreign aid provisions limiting President Ford's powers...