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...International Workers Day, the Harvard Administration confiscated a May 1st banner put up by two Harvard students. The banner pictured a worker against a field of red flags. On July 25th, Dean Epps denied a request for compensation of the banner that was "lost" by the administration...
...went back to Dean Epps immediately. He admitted responsibility for such matters. However, he laughed at my request for compensation. His argument was that if I went to his house and put up a banner he would throw it out and not pay compensation. There could hardly be a clearer statement about how Harvard looks upon revolutionary activity on campus...
Still to be decided also is the level of future economic aid that the Administration will request for friendly Central American countries. Seeking to counter charges that his policy is veering toward militarism, the President put stress last week on economic aid. Said he at his news conference: "For every one dollar we provide for security assistance to that region, we provide three dollars for economic and human development." There have been published reports that the Administration would request an additional $400 million in military and economic aid for Central America next year, a 50% increase, over the amount requested...
Although Sri Lanka's 12,000-man army is too weak to maintain order, Jayawardene has so far refused to request assistance from Indian troops. But necessity may prove the mother of intervention. Almost a third of the industries and trading establishments in Jayawardene's free-enterprise system are run by hard-working Tamils; many of those buildings now he in ashes. Unless the government acts decisively, still more of Sri Lanka's economy may go up in flames...
...charges involved criminal violations of the state's Uniform Land Sales Practices Law by a Florida real estate firm Jaffe owned. Faced with the loss of $137,000 it had posted in bail, the Accredited Surety & Casualty Co. decided not to wait for a formal extradition request and instead sent Timm Johnsen and Daniel Kear to Toronto to bring Jaffe back. Like most modern-day bounty hunters, Johnsen and Kear figured they would earn 10% of the bond, in this case $13,700, plus expenses and a bonus...