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...Soviets decide what to buy or steal by wading through the flood of technical journals and documents freely available in the U.S. Specialized translators at the Soviet State Committee for Science and Technology (GKNT) assess some 1.5 million scientific papers a year. A favorite source: Aviation Week and Space Technology, a trade journal so informative that it is known as "Aviation Leak." Several dozen copies of the magazine are put on a plane to Moscow every week. They are translated in mid-flight...
...West Philadelphia, a crane and bulldozer leveled the charred ruins of the neighborhood destroyed when police bombed a cult group's stronghold. In city hall, Mayor W. Wilson Goode named a commission to assess his administration's performance in the crisis. The panel is led by William H. Brown III, a former chairman of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and includes former Watergate Prosecutor Henry S. Ruth Jr. Said Goode: "I tried very hard to find people with an independent thought process. I want the truth." The same day, Managing Director Leo Brooks, who helped direct the assault...
...Department unveiled its dramatic tax-reform plan last November, TIME's Board of Economists was impressed by its boldness. Since then, the Reagan Administration has weakened or eliminated many of the most sweeping proposals. While that backsliding worried TIME's board when it met in Washington last week to assess the tax package and consider the economic outlook (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS), members nonetheless endorsed the broad goals of the President's program. Said Walter Heller, who chaired the Council of Economic Advisers in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations: "This could well be the most far-reaching tax reform...
...part of the community, officers are expected to consult with those affected by the decisions. Failures to meet these responsibilities may be profoundly damaging to the life of the University. Therefore, the University community has the right to establish orderly procedures consistent with imperatives of academic freedom to assess the policies and assure the responsibility of those whose decisions affect the life of the University...
...Black students have experienced unnecessary police stops and have been followed to their dorm rooms by patrol cars because their color makes them seem suspect to some Harvard police. But in most cases the students do not complain because they think nothing will be accomplished. A questionnaire devised to assess minority relations with University police will soon be handed out to Currier House students. But poor to this the only evidence of minority problems with the police has been formal complaints by a few isolated individuals...