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...Hosea Williams, program director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, hoped to boost the morale of the demonstrators by calling on them to "adopt the spirit of the Chinese people." Williams, who recently returned from a trip to People's Republic of China, said concerning President's Nixon's proposed trip to China. "Nixon will not be able to trick the Chinese people the way that he has tricked the American people...
...women would be ploughed back into scholarships. If that money proved insufficient, the admissions offices should be merged and scholarships should be provided without regard to sex. That can be decided later. What is needed now is a clear commitment to a 1 to 1 ratio. The University must adopt an admissions policy that cuts the number of men as the only financially practical and educationally desirable method of educating more women...
...Institute's proposal was that the agency would assume jurisdiction as soon as the offender had been convicted, and thus assume the responsibility for his sentencing from the state course system. Dissipate the objections of the "treat 'em rough" school of penology, California became the first state to adopt the Institute's recommendations. with the major exception of retaining the power to grant probation in the courts...
...free world are guaranteed their funding and are therefore more independent of their governments than PBS so far has been. If its bureaucratized and politicized management continues to bow meekly to pressure, as it did last week, PBS might as well give up its bold new logo and perhaps adopt something like a plucked version of the old NBC peacock. That is, a chicken...
...split has left China with few allies and little flexibility. While Mao's "hard-line" boosted morale, China could do little to help allies materially. Last Spring's slaughter in East Pakistan seriously hurt the credibility of the Chinese position that they would not behave as a superpower. China adopted a policy based on national interest over revolutionary ideology in letting their allies, West Pakistan, crush a popular rebellion. As China saw the alternative, a split Pakistan would have meant an Indian advance, pushing for an All-Bengalese state. With India so closely allied to Russia, China could not allow...