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However, these rules of decency and discretion were violated in the most callous and tasteless manner by anthropologists at the Peabody Museum on Thursday, January 24, 1980. This group openly advertised and later presented explicit film material on clitoridectomy of small African girls. The main speaker was anthropologist Tore Harkensson, a man who has been refused academic endorsement by all institutions in his native Sweden because of lack of training and his bizarre subject matter. When I was informed of the plans for this presentation by Mr. Harkensson, I strongly protested the showing of his films on the grounds that...
...historical accuracy over personal analysis, Fowler produces a well-researched biography that is highly readable. Deeply caught up in Hancock's political life, he remains curiously non-political himself, declining to draw any parallels to modern trends or current poltics. But despite Fowler's reluctance to relate past to present, he leaves the impression that the Baron would have a thing or two to say today...
...Soviet move into Afghanistan [Feb. 11] is reminiscent of Hitler's annexation of Austria, then the present U.S. policy of forging a closer alliance with Communist China has its parallel in the panicked alliance of the Western powers with the Soviet Union to crush Nazi Germany. The current might of the Soviet Union owes much to this alliance during the second World War when the Soviets obtained valuable weapons and technology from the West. Even more deplorable was the consequent vassalization of Eastern Europe by the U.S.S.R., unchecked by the Western Allies...
...staff on the 38th floor of the U.N. Secretariat waited for a telex message from Tehran that would confirm what they felt certain had been Banisadr's verbal agreement. The message finally arrived late in the day. As Waldheim read it, according to a U.N. aide who was present, he swallowed hard, suppressed an instinct to curse and "looked like a man who had been kicked in the pants." The cable mentioned nothing about the hostages and referred to the commission as though Banisadr was expecting it to hold a trial. Said the Iranian cable: "Now that the demand...
...draw, however, was not good enough for Reagan, who had skipped the first G.O.P. debate in Iowa because he thought that as the front runner, he should not present a target to his opponents. After coming in second in Iowa's caucuses, Reagan decided to get into the arena with his adversaries. For a seasoned performer, he got off to a rather halting start in Manchester. He made his points, but pallidly. Because of an unlucky draw, he was the last of the candidates to speak, following John Anderson, John Connally, Philip Crane, George Bush, Howard Baker and Robert...