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...broken by revolutionary means in El Salvador--O.K. If this also happens in Guatemala--very good. This would insure stability finally. But there will not be immediate stability, however, when you have American arms, American companies being sent to El Salvador, or when you maintain the status quo by not allowing the revolutionary process in these countries to really happen as the people really want them...
That is something new. The hoop status quo (and the IAB) might have been best described by famed ECAC ref Austin McArthur. He once missed a game at the IAB because he spent the evening in his car, looking for a basketball court. Of course, he drove right by the IAB. And if he was looking for a basketball team, he might have kept on driving as well...
...improve. A Third World center and increased minority faculty were two of the specific measures suggested by minority students to help improve their status here; since Bok expresses pessimism about both ideas, it is his responsibility to formulate alternatives. His letter does not do that--it defends the status quo, and the status quo serves well neither the interests of Third World students nor the interests of the general Harvard community...
Middle class people were, as the slogan went, mad as hell, and the right-wing addressed their legitimate complaints, while the left ignored them, or accused them of greed. Consequently, the left had little to offer except more of the same--a clearly unsatisfactory status quo. "Like the respectable antiwar protestor of Jules Feiffer's 1966 cartoon who carried a sign calling for A Little Less Bombing, the cautious liberals of the late seventies were for a little less cutting. It was not a slogan likely to bring anybody to the barricades...
Since Afghanistan, the U.S. has pretty much thrown away its carrots-SALT, grain sales, cultural exchanges, etc.-and resorted exclusively to waving sticks (and not very big ones at that). President Reagan has expressed a preference for open, Jackson-style, quid pro quo linkage. Henry Kissinger criticized this approach in the mid-'70s, but has now endorsed the Administration's position. He was right the first time...