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...come out in favor of either complete or limited withdrawal. Indeed, it has not taken any steps to alter significantly corporate policies in South Africa. A growing number of Harvard Faculty members believe that Harvard should take positive action. We are convinced that corporate withdrawal is necessary and that divestiture will promote such withdrawal. Therefore we urge Harvard to adopt a policy of divestiture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Members Reflect on Divestiture | 3/7/1979 | See Source »

...Danguole Spakevicius '81, who filed a motion earlier this year with the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) asking for an end to the ratios, called the issue "more a matter of principle than anything else." She added she believes the abolition of the sex ratio will not alter the number of students who will choose to live at the Quad...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Numbers Game | 3/3/1979 | See Source »

Although amendments offered on either the House or Senate floor could considerably alter the bill, members of both legislative branches have promised not to hold it up. A special preamble ensures the bill will take effect as soon as the governor signs...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: King of the Spirits | 2/10/1979 | See Source »

...earlier American adventures in Iran, Greece, Cuba, and most disasterously in Vietnam. The forces of evil differed from country to country, but the American response remained constant. Whenever American vision of how a nation ought to function was challenged, the U.S. responded with generally anti-democratic, repressive attempts to alter popular movements seeking to influence the political life on their own lands...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: Remember The Maine? | 2/8/1979 | See Source »

...recent crisis, the Carter administration resisted the temptation to intervene, recognizing the futility of overt action, and lacking the facilities, or the will for any covert operations to date. But government statements of support, matched by the editorial expressions of major papers across the country mounted an attempt to alter the will of the Iranian people. Heavy-handed gestures including the expansion of U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf area further alienated Iranians who had once been inspired by the Carter human rights stance. Even the relatively limited efforts by public and private U.S. organizations to impose...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: Remember The Maine? | 2/8/1979 | See Source »

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