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...Admitting more women would strengthen both efforts, and imply no lowering of academic standards. At the same time, adopting a one-to-one policy would place Harvard in the forefront of a movement to redress the cumulative effects of centuries of discrimination. "Sex-blind" admissions, working with the status quo, does not address itself to the need to improve the socio-economic standing of women in America...
...dollars in the conflict, the U.S. has a natural reluctance to cut back drastically on financial aid and thereby weaken the Thieu regime. Just maintaining the present spending level means an actual reduction because of inflation. Yet continuing or raising the assistance would seem to guarantee the new status quo-a bloody, inconclusive struggle among the Vietnamese that could go on indefinitely. No one in the Administration or in Congress appears to have any fresh ideas about...
...Krem lin dinner for Assad, Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev promised the Syrian President unlimited amounts of Soviet planes, missiles and other armament to replace Syrian losses to Israel in the October war. The reason, Brezhnev explained, was that the Russians were not able to accept the status quo in the Middle East today. The Soviet leader com plained that the "situation is still fraught with danger . . . The danger is that while there is some degree of tension the aggressor [Israel] and its patrons;[the U.S.] may try again to avoid a radical solution. It is not accidental that...
HOWEVER, except for its infrequent use in the United States, impeachment is a process that by its nature should promise stability and the continuation of the status quo, not chaos and disaster. It is a political ritual that has been present in the constitutions of organized societies since their beginnings--a ritual whose purpose and effect has been to affirm, not undermine, the unity of the people and the moral rectitude of the prevailing order. The parliamentary "vote of no confidence" is an oft-cited example of modern impeachment sans desastre, but impeachment rituals were also held by our "primitive...
...Guinea-Bissau. Now an influential Portuguese leader has openly questioned the government's sacrosanct policy that the overseas provinces must be preserved at all cost. Ironically, this dovish challenge comes from General Antonio de Spinola, a hero of the African wars. Meanwhile, hawkish devotion to the status quo prevails in the civilian-dominated National Assembly...