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...University with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Local 26 of the AFL-CIO accused University labor officials of preventing the union's agents from investigating grievances and of trying to undermine the safety committee stipulated in Local 26's contract. The union's latest action represents a growing rift between Harvard and officials of Local...
Students of history find themselves confronting a rift among modern historians. Many, following the school of the great English historian Arnold Toynbee, attempt to systematize history, fitting it into a series of patterns and cycles with scientific elegance. Others, like Sir Charles Oman, contend that the human record is illogical, that history is a series of happenings with no inevitability about it. As Leon Trotsky once observed, cause in history "refracts itself through a natural selection of accidents...
...least one more election, the tenuous coalition between liberal and radical, between the CCA and the' tenants, seems likely to last. But it is hard not to look at what happened to Wendy Abt and conclude that a deep rift between the two groups is possible, and that Cambridge politics--traditionally polarized between neighborhood-oriented Independents and the CCA--could become split up among the Independents, the CCA and the tenants...
More than a hundred city tenants voting in a convention yesterday decided not to endorse Wendy Abt in her bid for city council, a move that shocked some traditional city liberals and may indicate the beginning of a rift between them and more militant tenant advocates...
...Poles came in the form of a toughly worded letter that, for the first time, criticized by name both Kania and Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski. The Soviet threat, similar to one sent to the Czechoslovaks three days before Soviet tanks moved into Prague in 1968, exacerbated an open rift within the Polish Central Committee and elicited a stern warning to the Soviets from U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig. The U.S., said Haig, holds "the firm view that the Polish people should be left alone to determine their future course." Only a compromise decision not to bring matters to a head...