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...look rather ominously like war anywhere else. Fighting continued sporadically in South Viet Nam. Meanwhile, Communist forces in Cambodia continued to tighten the noose around the capital of Phnom-Penh, raising again the question of how long the bumbling government of ailing President Lon Nol could effectively survive. Amidst these signs that the cease-fire agreement has all but collapsed, the White House announced that Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger would return to Paris in mid-May for another round of talks with the silver-haired chief North Vietnamese negotiator...
...behind the more artistically acceptable term homage. De Palma thinks of his film in terms of homage, so Sisters is far more discouraging than a typical bandwagon exploiter. It deceives even the film maker -- a potentially good film maker at that. De Palma tries hard to lose his style amidst Hitchcock's. Fortunately, he doesn't succeed: his film still includes sections that are both effective and original...
...what of experimentation with human subjects? The issue has become a heated one in light of the recently disclosed Tuskegee syphillitic study. This and the aforementioned economic questions illuminate issues of more general social consequences than those in the strictly medical arena. Amidst legitimate charges of the abuse of the lower income brackets and minority groups, the medical profession, guided by the society in which it thrives, must come to terms with its discrimination...
...plan, instituted amidst controversy earlier this year on a trial basis, called for $1.9 million in scholarship aid for students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...about 4 p.m. yesterday, a caravan of ten "pedal cars" left Harvard Square and rolled amidst the traffic of Mt. Auburn St. towards Putnam Square...