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...part of which would benefit NATO. Perhaps more important, he promised that the U.S. would not reduce its present 285,000-man troop level before the summer of 1972. To underscore that pledge, Secretary of State William Rogers read a message from President Nixon promising that no pullout will occur even after that date "unless there is reciprocal action from our adversaries...
Cracking Down. The Oct. 5 abduction of Cross-the first political kidnaping to occur north of the Rio Grande-set in motion a series of events that shocked the world. Acting with unflinching determination, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau rejected the terrorists' initial extravagant demands for Cross' release: $500,000 in gold bullion, plus transport and safe conduct for 23 jailed F.L.Q. thugs to Cuba or Algeria. After the ransom was denied, another group of kidnapers then abducted Quebec Labor Minister Pierre Laporte, prompting Trudeau to crack down really hard. Under a little-used World War I security measure...
...pounds Mark Faller overwhelmed Scott McClintlock, his rival in the quadrangular, 14-4. Harvard's Dave Scanlon, 190 pounds, pinned his Franklin and Marshall foe last year at 16 seconds of the second period. Tonight a rematch will occur with his victim, Fred Albrecht...
...Courses dealing with the teaching of a particular subject would be dropped. As a result, changes would occur in the composition of the Faculty. "We can't admit people to the doctoral program unless we can guarantee them Faculty continuity over their four years," Sizer said last night. "We know what Faculty will be here next year, so there's no problem with...
...feet aching we decided to move to the East Side where the John Korty film was playing, in an archetypal art box complete with plants and prints in the lobby and a Film Board of Canada short subject, it was with one of those weird combinations of emotions that occur if climate blends with a state of mind. Disgusted with the academic programs we had been following, with the dogmas of Artforum aesthetes and film school brutalists; confounded by the political considerations overriding all others those days (and by irrational local student reaction to them) we two would-be filmmakers...