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...minority members of the Committee on Research Policy who voted last December against Harvard's allying itself institutionally with the Cambridge Project, Because of the opposition of some Faculty members to such an alliance, the project's joint Harvard-M. I. T. advisory committee last month withdrew its request to President Pusey that he appoint Harvard representatives to the project's policy board...
...determined in the darkness, the Egyptians peeked over the embankment on the Israeli side, then crawled back and waited. At dawn they moved into holes on the embankment and stayed put while the Israelis called down artillery fire. As darkness fell again, the Egyptians planted a flag and withdrew to the west bank...
...quick to declare Masaryk a suicide. Even in 1948, hardly anybody in Prague believed the story. Four weeks ago, after more than 20 years, the Czech Communists closed an investigation they themselves had opened under the liberal Dubcek regime. Despite the new presence of the Russian army, they withdrew the suicide verdict. But in a grotesque compromise (TIME, Dec. 19, 1969), they decided that Masaryk's fall from his bathroom window was an accident...
Edwin B. Newman, professor of Psychology and chairman of the Harvard participants in the Project, yesterday withdrew the request of the Project's Harvard-M.I.T. advisory board to President Pusey for the appointment of Harvard representatives to the official Project policy board. Newman had consulted with 10 of the 12 advisory board members about this decision...
...Central Highlands along the Cambodian border. At least eight battalions under the command of the ARVN 23rd division, which had failed twice in the past two years to repulse enemy attacks, fended off three seasoned North Vietnamese regiments, numbering about 5,000 men. Last week, as the Communists withdrew to base camps farther north in Cambodia...