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South Africa will not abolish apartheid. Rhodesia will not do away with the privileges its whites enjoy. The solution in southern Africa will come tragically, with a bloodbath. Negotiations will rise and set in the next 20 years, filling the headlines and giving the State Department something to do. When the war comes, when Afrikaaner minds are changed, finally, with bullets, Americans will be able only to regret that the U.S. did not do all it could to support the Popular Front in Rhodesia and the liberation forces in South Africa...
Civil Service Reform. To improve the performance of the lumbering federal bureaucracy, with its 2.8 million employees, Carter asked for salary incentives and streamlined hiring and firing procedures. Congress gave him substantially what he wanted, refusing only to abolish preference in hiring given to veterans...
Many Student Assembly members do not wish to abolish CHUL or CUE because they think those committees fulfill a certain function -- providing an opportunity for interaction between students and faculty members. Some kind of co-existence is probably likely. One possibility being considered by some representatives is to permit the Student Assembly to appoint the members of student-faculty committees. Another possibility, one advocated by Stephen V.R. Winthrop '80, chairman of the Student Assembly, is to seek recognition from the Faculty instead of from CHUL, thereby avoiding an impression that the Student Assembly is less powerful than CHUL...
...past were all for the Warren Court's protections of the offender. One index of the respectability of the tougher line: Edward Kennedy, who owns the most liberal voting record in the Senate, is the co-author of the revised U.S. Criminal Code that would, among other things, abolish parole boards and indeterminate sentences. There is a certain wistfulness in such measures. Says L. Ray Patterson, dean of the Emory School of Law in Atlanta: "The concern of the public is not so much for vindictive retribution, but for some retribution...
...demonstrate a proficiency in a foreign language through either an achievement test or one year in a language course. James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government, and his task force on the Core which drew up the preliminary Core proposals and presented them in 1977, recommended that the Faculty abolish the language requirement. The final Core report says the language requirement should remain, but also says, "in view of the complex questions attendant on implementing such a view...all of which require further study, we recommend that the dean appoint a special committee for this purpose." Phyllis Keller, associate dean...