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...informal vote Monday night, the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) legislature rejected a Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) recommendation that the University abolish term-bill funding...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: RUS Legislative Body Rejects CHUL Plan to Abolish Fee | 4/11/1979 | See Source »

...change would bring about full employment, help abolish corporate control of energy sources and change the western focus of American foreign policy, he said...

Author: By Ann R. Scott and Suzanne R. Spring, S | Title: Harrington Asks For Reduced Corporate Role | 4/7/1979 | See Source »

...After some 65 years of Jewish immigration, greatly accelerated during the era of Nazi persecution, the United Nations General Assembly votes to abolish the 1920 British mandate and partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab states. The Arabs reject the plan, and civil strife worsens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Three Decades of Conflict | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

...crowd including many Khomeini critics gathered in Ahmadabad (pop. 800), 60 miles northwest of Tehran. At a rally outside the brown brick house where Mossadegh is buried, his grandson-in-law, Dr. Hedayatollah Matine-Daftary, called for the creation of a National Democratic Front. Its program: a referendum to abolish the monarchy followed by an extended debate on the new constitution. Matine-Daftary also favors home rule for ethnic minorities like the Kurds, the abolition of censorship and worker control of factories. Says he: "In front of us is nothing but light. If a nation can express its thoughts freely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: You Are Weak, Mister | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...latter also only 30% of the student population-frankly lament the change. "What's wrong with four years without women?" a fraternity boy asks. Just lately the faculty has stirred a certain amount of rage and despair in many a Big Green breast by urging the college to abolish its 22 fraternities on grounds that they are antithetical to academic progress, unhealthy for social conduct, as well as being noisy centers of alcoholic disruption and childish antics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Scene: In Hanover: The Big Green Battle of the Sexes | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

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