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...hope that Mr. Pattullo's letter, as well as the response to it, will encourage the President and Fellows of Harvard College, as well as the Faculty, to adopt a firm policy of nondiscrimination towards gays and lesbians, both students and employees. To live freely and without fear cannot be too much to ask. Elizabeth R. Brown Cambridge...
...contemplating attack. The problem is that declaration or no declaration, a no-first-use policy is the only rational one. The question which in the long run must be addressed by the U.S. government is whether it will rely indefinitely on nuclear deterrence to preserve its interests or will adopt a new posture which stresses non-nuclear forces. It is not an easy choice and neither answer is fully, satisfying. Where is Archimedes when we need...
...survey of the condition of governance in the Ivy League finds some tangible similarities and differences between what Harvard is about to adopt and what recently has been established elsewhere. Regardless of the applicability of comparison because of unique features like Harvard's House system and Cornell's large size, leaders acknowledge one common and indisputable enemy: pervading apathy. Despite the new student government in Ithaca. Cornell undergraduates continue to stay away from the polls; the most recent vote drew 19 percent of the campus, the largest turnout in years, according to one student government officer. In that election, just...
...scientific council at Kat's institute proceeded to strip him of his position and his Doctor of Sciences degree (roughly equivalent to a Ph.D.) by adopting a resolution denouncing him as a traitor and citing his application to emigrate to "a country hostile to the Soviet Union and to our Arab friends. "Kats wrote a letter of protest to the president of the Academy of Sciences, quoting the provision of the Helsinki Final Act, signed by Leonid Brezhnev in 1975, which stipulates that a person who has applied to emigrate shall not be subject to changes in rights or duties...
...quiet protests against the perils of nuclear war, symbolized the growing pressure on the White House to negotiate a strategic weapons freeze with the Soviets-a position that is morally worthy of debate but diplomatically dangerous. Meanwhile, the Administration was still trying to work out a stance to adopt in strategic arms control negotiations with Moscow. And other problems loomed: with China, angry over the White House support for Taiwan; with Central America, where rightists were forming a government in El Salvador, and the Nicaraguans were asking for talks; with Cuba, where the U.S. reacted to a bid for negotiations...