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Urfirer said Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, was "very postive to the idea of a concert and very helpful." At Epps' request, Larry DiCara '71, president of the Boston City Council and a member of the AHA board of directors, is advising Urfirer and the AHA on the venture...
...INTERVENTION of Soviet troops in Afghanistan, ostensibly at the request of the Afghan government, was an act of international aggression rightly condemned by American leaders, their allies and several Third World governments...
...atomic bomb blueprints he had made as part of his junior project. Phillips told the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Sen. William Proxmire (D-Wisc.) about the incident. When pressed about the incident, a Pakistani aide said there was nothing "sinister or underhand" about the request. However, Proxmire noted that the incident highlighted the desperation of some nations for nuclear weapons and the importance of adopting an effective non-proliferation policy...
...significant numbers of its own armed forces in a state outside the Warsaw Pact. It seemed an ominous extension into Asia of the Brezhnev Doctrine, which asserts that Moscow has the right to assist any socialist state in trouble. Moscow, of course, claimed that it intervened only at the request of the Karmal government under the terms of a 20-year friendship treaty signed in December 1978. The Russians made no attempt to disguise the fact that the airlift began two days before the coup that brought Karmal to power, thus making a mockery of their rationale...
...request of President Carter, the White House set up a committee to search for any evidence to back up the initial conclusion, investigate alternative possibilities and determine whether a malfunction aboard the satellite could have produced the observations...