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Brett Donham '60, acting chairman of the task force, said yesterday that his colleagues are in accord on the basic orientation of the project. "Everyone agrees that the industrial uses of the area should be in technically-oriented industry, such as electronic assembly, that allows a high-density level of blue-collar workers," he said...
...past, the former Soviet leader's freewheeling reminiscences bear directly on many contemporary issues. He discusses hitherto unknown incidents that contributed to the present Moscow-Peking conflict. He provides insights into the Soviet missile buildup, and the mutual suspicions that prevented any Russian-U.S. arms limitations accord. Khrushchev also presents typically blunt assessments of contemporary world political figures he dealt with, including Mao Tse-tung, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy and Richard Nixon...
After five days of intense negotiations in New Delhi last week, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh signed an agreement resolving the last two major issues left over from the 1971 Indo-Pakistani war. The accord clears the way for normalization of diplomatic and economic relations among the three countries and for Bangladesh's membership in the United Nations, which until now has been vetoed by China at Pakistan's behest...
Best Forgotten. The New Delhi accord was less precise in dealing with the fate of the 500,000 Biharis (non-Bengali Moslems) in Bangladesh. Many of the Biharis-so called because they emigrated from the Indian state of Bihar at the time of the 1947 partition-sided with the Pakistani military during the war, and for that reason face a painful future if they stay in Bangladesh. Most of them live in fear and squalor in huge refugee camps outside Dacca and other cities...
...Western World and The Plough and the Stars, or even the riots after the first word ("merdre") of Jarry's Ubu Roi. Theater when it's working well, he was saying, is meant to be somewhat jarring and disturbing. But this spring's Harvard drama season is in total accord with the national attitude of escape and be merry. It is a whole feast for complacency. Musical comedy is by its very nature a tranquilizing force. No problem is allowed to arise that can't be soothed with another reprise. And an undiluted diet of period comedy, however refreshing...