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...China that, in effect allows Americans to deal in China on nearly the same basis as in the Soviet Union. The decision was actually made two weeks ago, but the timing of its announcement was decided by events. The President said that the U.S. would welcome visitors from China, abolish currency restrictions for American businessmen dealing with that country, allow U.S. companies to provide fuel for ships and planes traveling to China, and authorize American ships and planes to carry Chinese cargoes and American-owned foreign flag ships to call at Chinese ports. He also disclosed that the Administration...
...English Department has decided to abolish its Junior General Examinations beginning next year, John M. Bullitt '43, director of undergraduate studies in English, said yesterday...
President Nixon had asked Congress to grant him the authority to abolish all undergraduate deferments granted since last April...
Patterson expects Hampshire's "hospitality to contemporary life" to be tempered by two "ageless virtues: duty and reverence." The college catalogue warns that academic life must be "hierarchical." Students are not allowed to abolish Hampshire's year-end exams, have no power over faculty appointments, do not sit on the board of trustees. A major continuing problem is money. Hampshire is still scrambling for $22.5 million to teach and house the new classes that will enter each year until enrollment reaches 1,500. With the cost of a year at Hampshire due to hit $4,300 next fall...
...committee a bill, passed by the Senate and weakened by the House, that would ban strip mining in 36 still unspoiled counties for one year and limit its growth elsewhere in the state. The battle started last December, when State Secretary John D. Rockefeller IV promoted a bill to abolish surface mining "completely and forever." He was supported by well-organized citizens' groups and the state's underground miners, who want to keep their jobs. But leaders of the United Mine Workers and the coal industry raised key objections. For one, strip mining is more than twice...