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...students and a few Faculty members have been criticizing the Economics Department for the rigidity of its curriculum and for the lack of diversity and Faculty contact in its graduate program. The discontent was generally dismissed as the typical yowling of a minority of radical activists, and the status quo marched...
...said Clark's sense of integrity and his frustration with the status quo brings a "breath of fresh air" to politics in this country...
...their goals--full-scale industrial nationalization and drastic redistribution of wealth--achieved even if a Labour government proves unethusiastic about implementing them. The Labour party has its own share of millionaires and in recent years has become a party with a very large stake in the status quo. But an anti-European Labour government committed to a wealth tax will have an enormous amount of difficulty raising the foreign capital necessary for Britain--an island that cannot live without imports--to finance its balance of payments deficit. American banks recently announced, jointly, that they felt they were fully "loaned...
...political imprisonment became important enough issues to move the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to ban all U.S. aid to Chile. This moral effort was predictably short-lived. Two days after the Committee vote a joint House-Senate conference removed all restrictions on aid to Chile--thereby reaffirming the status quo of U.S. foreign aid, in which concern over the use of torture and political imprisonment is not a determining factor...
...Gaylord, Mich., Catholics visiting the Pontiff at his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo last week were four Ottawa Indians outfitted in full tribal regalia. The four presented Paul with an Ottawa war bonnet, which he obligingly put on. Then one of the Indians, Alvina Anderson, proposed a quid pro quo. "I asked the Pope to pray for peace be tween the U.S. and the Indians," she said later. "I told him that the U.S. had not honored a lot of our treaties." Paul's reply went unrecorded...