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...Reed withdrew from the college for financial reasons and moved into Buffalo's low-income Black housing projects to define himself "against the artificial social and class distinctions associated with American university education," he says. Life there was "a horrible experience" because of his growing awareness that no individual, no matter how well-intentioned, could change these basic conditions of poverty. This experience led Reed to a period of intense political activism during the late civil rights movement and the early stages of the Black power movement...
...Western Europe began last November, when students closed more than 50 French universities in an attempt to defeat a government-sponsored bill that would have tightened admissions requirements and raised tuition fees. Students criticized the changes as "elitist." In December they gained a dramatic victory when Premier Jacques Chirac withdrew the proposal. Part of their motivation was to continue the elitism they deplored: while total French unemployment is about 11%, only 3% of university graduates are jobless...
...remorseless partisan. When Milt felt that the presidential fever was building in Buchanan, he gave him his best dark-horse trim, which is a cut that is short all over, even on the sides and top, and starkly etched at the edges. But such artistry was not enough. Buchanan withdrew from the fray and has even decided to quit his White House post. Milt shrugs, "He's still got a cutting edge...
...November, Samad Nassirnia, an Iranianstudent, charged a Cambridge police officer withassault and harassment during an arrest.Nassirnia withdrew the charges last week, butpressure to investigate the incident continues...
Macmillan came to power during a brief but crucial episode in British history. In 1956 Britain and France invaded Egypt in response to Cairo's nationalization of the Suez Canal. But the British soon withdrew, confronted by the Eisenhower Administration's objections to the operation and a rising tide of criticism at home. In so doing, they also had to face a fact that they had resisted until then: the sun had set on the British Empire. After Prime Minister Anthony Eden resigned, ostensibly for health reasons, the Conservative Party chose Macmillan, a veteran politician, as his replacement...