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...Sept. 13 issue of The Harvard Crimson, an editorial titled "Making English Official Carries Risk" by Armen Melikian, a special student in the graduate Department of Mathematics last year, made a very passionate argument against recent legislation which would make English the official language of the United States. As the author himself argues, this legislation simply requires "conducting government business in English." However, Mr. Melikian argues that this legislation is "but one item in a hidden agenda by Anglo supremacist groups to annihilate the cultural identity of various ethnic groups that comprise American society...
...Armen Melikian was a special student in the graduate Department of Mathematics last year...
...economic collapse. Many agree with engineer Arthur Verdian that "a government whose people are starving does not have the moral right to rule." Others believe it is time to find a compromise over Nagorno-Karabakh. "We have to stop this war by any means," says Armen Arutunian, a doctor. "The world community should intervene. There already have been too many victims, so many losses." Antigovernment demonstrations are on the rise, but the President has little room to maneuver. A militantly nationalist opposition, supported by the several-million-strong Armenian diaspora around the world, rejects the slightest concession over Nagorno-Karabakh...
...Armen Boyajian, a respected voice coach, says he tries to prepare his students for what he calls "the ordeal of a career. You hope that after the young singer gets out into the world, he will encounter conductors who understand the voice. Some are ruthless -- to them the voice is just another percussion instrument...
COVER: Photographs of daisies and bullet by Armen Kachaturian, Janis Joplin by Dan McCoy -- Black Star, U.S. Soldiers in Viet Nam by Larry Burrows -- LIFE, Robert Kennedy by Burt Glinn -- Magnum, Coretta King by Bob Fitch -- Black Star