Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...last May of the CUE study abroad legislation. The Council's ostensible reasons for its nearly unanimous opposition to the proposal concerned 'quality control' at other colleges, the difficulty of estimating how many students would go abroad, and the logistical problem of creating a bureaucratic structure to monitor the program...
...Stanford University, 30 per cent of their students participate in a study abroad program, but the Council ignored this fact, since technical feasibility was not really the issue in the decision. Rather, Harvard's reputation was at stake, for to grant credit widely for study abroad would be to admit openly that another university can provide an educational experience equal to a year at Harvard. The collective ego recoiled at such a thought, and the problem of study abroad became moot...
...arrangement to demilitarize the West Bank and Gaza during a five-year transition period. He suggested that joint Egyptian-Israeli patrols or international forces could keep order. Sadat urged Carter to put pressure on Begin to stop planting settlements in occupied territory on the West Bank. The settlement program, he said, "generates hatred and friction...
When Begin arrives this week to talk with Carter, he is expected to demand, as steadfastly as always, that his country keep its military forces in the occupied lands during the transition period. He also plans to defend, as always, the settlement program: "This is not only our right, but it is our duty to settle. This is an integral part of our national security, and we must settle." To strengthen Begin's hand, the Israeli Cabinet instructed the Premier to discuss only those proposals contained in the Camp David accords, thus technically ruling out any negotiation...
...risks in local conflicts." In such cases, said Kissinger, Soviet superiority in conventional arms could no longer be offset by a credible threat of U.S. nuclear retaliation. "The present Administration has compounded the problem by systematically deprecating the role of power, by canceling or stretching out every strategic program it inherited...