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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wards since 1948, and Arab claims of human-rights violations in Israeli-occupied territories. Other debates certain to engage the Assembly's time and temper include the protection of civil rights for Northern Ireland's Catholic minority and restrictions on chemical and germ warfare. There is every prospect that the U.N. will formally decide to enter the pollution-control field by setting up the first worldwide governmental conference on the protection of the environment, to be held in 1972. Almost certainly, given the Afro-Asian majority in the Assembly, strong resolutions will be passed during the sessions condemning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: UNITED NATIONS: IT'S ALL WE GOT | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

Harvard's cross-country team returned from its three-week training camp with luxuriant beards and noticeable exuberance last weekend, but despite the clear prospect of another unbeaten season. Crimson coach Bill McCurdy seemed somewhat reserved...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Crimson Harriers Return; Heyburn May Be Standout | 9/23/1969 | See Source »

Another top prospect, Jon Enscoe, has been sidelined by a cranky knee, and it is doubtful that he will return early enough to help the Crimson to any large extent...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Crimson Harriers Return; Heyburn May Be Standout | 9/23/1969 | See Source »

Violence and social protest seem out of place in the hushed domain of the scholar. Professor Ulam argues that the university itself must reestablish some form of authority or "face the prospect of outside imposition." The real question is: what form should the new authority take? Institutions can usually eliminate the violence of a minority by becoming more democratic. Political reform-at the university and national level-would do the most to "depoliticize" the university...

Author: By Thomas Geoghegan, | Title: From the Shelf Universities in Trouble | 9/22/1969 | See Source »

...strike myself, having been taught at an early age never to cross a picket line and the lesson having stuck. I wondered for a spell whether a New York City teacher ought to adhere to this rule, but then sat back and proceeded to enjoy the prospect of not attending classes-in contrast to Harvard-per-usual, where I failed to attend them but got depressed about it. As the next logical step. I began to absorb the issues of the strike-ROTC. Afro-American Studies, expansion-and could see nothing objectionable and a lot of good in the positions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From The End of Four Years | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

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