Word: access
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Faculty, in a near-unanimous decision, yesterday voted to adopt the major recommendations of the Strauch Committee, a move that will institute equal access admissions for the Class of 1980 pending the approval of the Radcliffe Trustees and the Governing Boards...
...Faculty did not approve the whole Strauch report, but only a three-part motion calling for equal access admissions beginning with applicants applying next fall for admission to the Class of 1980. Joint Harvard-Radcliffe Standing Committees on Admissions and Scholarships, and annual and three year reviews of equal access as specified in the Strauch report...
...complaints. The Administration was consulting its European allies about means of imposing a kind of quarantine within the alliance. As Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger put it, "It will have to take some symbolic form ? making them outcasts without casting them out." Explained another official: "We would deny access to classified documents that circulate in the alliance and disinvite them to NATO meetings." At the same time, hoping to influence Lisbon favorably, the U.S. made a friendly gesture. Congress approved $25 million in economic assistance. So far, the U.S. is the only Western country to offer the Portuguese financial...
...still there was panic. Even the so-called priority evacuation flight, limited to Americans and Vietnamese with proven U.S. connections, brought hundreds of people stampeding to the gleaming white U.S. consulate. Mimeographed consulate passes were photocopied and the forgeries passed on or sold to close friends or relatives. Even access through the guarded entrance to the airport became subject to bribes. By the morning of the priority flight, thousands of Vietnamese were besieging planes on the landing strip. The airport was described as "insecure," and not because of the enemy. Under these conditions it was hard to imagine a single...
Buttoned Up. Colby believes that he can allay such fears, if the members and staffers of the House and Senate investigating committees now being set up to look into the intelligence community exercise restraint in their requests for access to secrets and prevent what they receive from being leaked...