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Those changes--set in motion by Mattlin's request--mark a new stage in renovations for the handicapped, initiated in 1977 following the signing of the federal Rehabilitation Act. The act required that any institution receiving federal funds make its programs and activities accessible to the handicapped by June...
...Mattlin's request goes beyond these efforts. While Moser says Harvard has made programs and activities accessible, she adds that attempting to fulfill Mattlin's wish for roommates marks a new effort to provide disabled students "access to the same lifestyle as others." Harvard had planned to focus attention on changes that would provide the disabled with even greater access after completing its transition plan. But, according to Crooks, Mattlin has prompted an acceleration of the time table...
Wylie said his request was designed to protect the neighbors of Harvard personnel, "but will probably end up to some extent helping the buyers themselves," by insuring that they do not pay inflated property taxes...
...Corporation also decided to abstain on resolutions at the Exxon Corporation and the Atlantic Richfield Company that request an end to these companies' expansion in Chile. The ACSR had given favorable--but only by a plurality--recommendations on these two motions...
Whatever Jones may have said, there is no doubt that the Pentagon saw advantages in acceding to the Saudi request. Saudi Arabia is a thinly populated, poorly defended country whose vital oilfields are vulnerable to attack. Ground radar, for example, would give the Saudis only two to four minutes' warning of an assault by Iranian planes flying in low over the gulf. Points out a Pentagon official: "You have to consider the possibility of irrational acts by Iran, and that means anything is possible." The availability of AWACS would extend the warning time to 15 minutes, enough to enable...