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...more diffuse, the issues concerning students more complex. Students surprised both administrators and themselves last spring by their ability to focus opposition on corrupt and corrupting economic forces on the other side of the world--but that opposition may prove difficult to sustain. The driving forces of 1969 are absent...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: Ten Years After the Strike | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...both to emphasize his transformations and his antipathy towards the Arab world. His impotency over his own life is analogous to Mexico's lack of independence in the international scene. Just as Mexico is "in the grips of the beak of the U.S. and Russia", Maldonado is manipulated by absent foreign officials. Oil, the "hydra head of our passions," forces Mexico, the U.S. and the Arab world to assume different alliances in the same manner that Maldonado constantly readjusts his relations with other characters...

Author: By Judith E. Matloff, | Title: The Day of the Hydra | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

Jackson continued to hustle ("I don't like the connotation of that word--just call me a mover," George said when I brought up the term) and lined up all concerned--Harvard, the boxers from Beantown and the Big Apple, and the Leukemia Society. The only thing noticeably absent was money...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: Harvard's Boxing Renaissance Man | 4/13/1979 | See Source »

Anticipating victory over Amin, Ugandan exiles from around the world met last week in Tanzania to form a provisional government. Conspicuously absent was former President Milton Obote, who had been overthrown by Big Daddy in 1971. Never a particularly popular leader, Obote had alienated many of his countrymen with his authoritarian manner and socialist rhetoric, and particularly with his ruthless efforts to crush Uganda's ancient tribal kingdoms in the interests of national unity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: Big Daddy's Last Stand? | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

Fundamentals were absent in the seventh and eighth innings for the Crimson here yesterday, as UMass parlayed four unearned runs off three Harvard errors to win 4-1, but the bright outshone the boots...

Author: By Bill Scheft, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: UMass Spoils Keyte's Five-Hitter, 4-1 | 4/5/1979 | See Source »

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