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Parker drew a lot of flak when, alter an arduous eight-month selection process, eight of the fourteen-man Olympic squad turned out to be Harvard alumni. 1972 Crimson stars Tony Brooks and Deve Sawyior joined the Mexico City veterans in the quest to recapture the stature lost south of the border four years...
...Everyone knows that the most arduous problem now existing between the two sides is the problem of power in South Viet Nam," said Le Due Tho, the chief North Vietnamese negotiator at the Paris peace talks during a recent press conference. What he meant by that diplomatic euphemism is the possible replacement of President Nguyen Van Thieu's government by a broader-based regime. Thieu, with the long war in Indochina winding slowly toward some sort of resolution, has become the sticking point in any serious peace discussions...
...Council, after a long and arduous search, is now considering two candidates for the job--Neil Peterson and James Johnson. Although the fact that one is white and the other black has injected an unnecessary racial factor into the debate, the fact is that both men are well qualified and either would be a real asset to the City government...
...Richard Nixon's evident power to make quick foreign policy decisions on his own. Despite his pre-eminence as Secretary General of the Soviet Communist Party, Brezhnev is a member of a collective leadership whose decisions are reached only by consensus. Last week those deliberations were especially arduous, as Russia's ruling council coped with its most complex challenge in a decade: how to respond to the U.S.'s mining of North Vietnamese harbors...
Human Ecology. In its 1971 report, the President's Committee on Mental Retardation appealed for an era of "human ecology" in which the incidence of retardation could be halved by the year 2000. That goal is not impossible, but its achievement will prove arduous. Science has already taken great strides toward the prevention of genetic and chromosomal defects and is likely to make more progress in the next 28 years. Elimination, or at least control, of many of the diseases that cause mental retardation is also within the reach of modern medicine...