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Andrew L. Creighton '81, recounts the legend surrounding the commotion. The University police, in an attempt to deny the SDS access to Harvard, locked all the gates to the Yard. However, a custodian of Phillips Brooks House had ferreted away a key to the gate some years before. Using the key, 150 SDS members snuck into the building, and the convention proceeded without further incident...
Western scholars have neglected Afro-American literature, considering "even the most pedantic and empty scholarship" more important. Cudjoe said. Scholars should attempt to integrate Afro-American literature into their understanding of American culture, he added...
Again, it was the news columns that prepared the way for open editorial expressions of support for the Shah. The Associated Press blamed the crisis on the Shah's attempt to bring Iran's "feudalistic society into the modern (aka western) world." The New York Times, on November 6, committed one of the most egregious examples of slanted coverage when it wrote that "the Shah even invited (opposition leader) Mr. Sanjabi to the palace was a dramatic compromise for him. The founder of Mr. Sanjabi's party, Mohammed Mossadegh, almost ousted the Shah from power in 1953." The Times story...
...Taiwan ("You think the Taiwans got a word to say about it? Think 1 billion can't take 17 million any day they want to?" One man just says, "Viet Nam," ending that), and crime in the county (a man has been shot in a break-in attempt -"Funny thing, he's a married nigger"). None of them pays the least notice to me or the other two strangers eating within earshot. It's their place; we're invisible. While I sense that the N.A.A.C.P. may not wish to pass out brotherhood plaques here, I also...
Since Africa is an area in which both the U.S. and China have sometimes shared a common interest, Carter was expected to explain how the U.S. attempt to implement the Anglo-American plan for Rhodesia has bogged down. The President may even indirectly solicit Teng's ideas about how China might help to counter Soviet expansionism on the African continent. In addition, Carter was likely to feel Teng out for any discernible shift from the traditional Chinese call for unilateral U.S. withdrawal from South Korea...