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...urges Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who returned recently to Harvard after two years as U.S. Ambassador to India. In the March issue of Commentary, he calls on the U.S. to adopt a tougher stance toward the Third World. He excoriates Americans for an "extraordinarily passive, even compliant" policy that tries-but fails-to appease the developing nations by remaining silent when Third World leaders blame the West for famine and poverty...
Zadok also told the 75 member audience at the Science Center that he feels "the time has come" for Israel to adopt a constitution...
FROM ALL THE recommendations presented in the Preliminary Report of the University and City, a report commissioned by University president Nathan M. Pusey, '28 in 1968. It is unfortunate that the University chose to adopt the above passage as its unofficial community policy, leaving out the last ominous line...
...Bulldogs raced to a 27-16 halftime lead, forcing Radcliffe coach John McCarthy to adopt a different defensive strategy Radcliffe countered with a man-to-man defense in the second half and while the pressing defense produced turnovers, the Crimson could not convert them into points...
...monetary policies to alleviate the slump. Now they believe that the Administration's budget, even with its big deficit, will do very little in a $1.4 trillion economy to revive demand, spur production and thus begin restoring jobs. Asserts Tax Specialist Joseph Pechman: "If Congress were to adopt the Ford program lock, stock and barrel, the net stimulus today would be zero." Adds Arthur Okun of the Brookings Institution: "The entire reason for that deficit is that the economy is in terrible shape, and is knocking hell out of revenues and increasing federal expenditures for unemployment and other things...