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...forceful advocate for U.S. military assistance to South Viet Nam. Now he is closer to the antiwar activists who fought him. Along with McNamara, former Ambassador to Moscow George F. Kennan and Gerard Smith, chief negotiator of the SALT I treaty, Bundy recently urged the U.S. and NATO to adopt a no-first-strike policy toward nuclear weapons, and has said that President Reagan's Star Wars proposal does not "respect reality." Head of the Ford Foundation from 1966 to 1979, Bundy, 66, is now a history professor at New York University. His conclusions about Viet Nam are the opposite...
Harvard's stated policy for dealing with South African-involved companies does not explicitly include all of Kennedy's recommendations, but Bok said that Harvard is either investigating or already encourages companies to adopt those measures which Kennedy has espoused...
...room for "enhancing the independence of enterprises (and) raising their interest in the end product of their work." But Gorbachev also cautioned against letting the drive for greater material benefits disrupt "social justice," a signal that the Soviet Union, for all its economic difficulties, was not about to adopt the sort of incentive systems being introduced and practiced these days in Deng Xiaoping's China...
...frustrating talks reached an inconclusive end in Tokyo. Members of the U.S. delegation remained guarded. Said Allen Wallis, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs: "They have reacted to a number of our suggestions and are considering others. We don't know for sure ourselves which ones they will adopt...
...urges the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to join its counterparts at the Law School and the Divinity School (where the faculties have already added the words sexual orientation to the non-discriminatory clauses) and adopt a clear policy of non-discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in admissions, hiring, and housing. At this point, it is important to add that the cities of Boston and Cambridge already have a comprehensive human rights ordinance which prohibits discrimination in the areas of community services, employment, and housing on the basis of a number of criteria--among them, sexual orientation...