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...Chinese-language broadcasts have been stressing that "the fundamental interests in the two countries are identical." Recent speeches by Soviet officials have been notable for the absence of any political references that could offend Peking. This new diplomatic approach has yet to be reciprocated. At a Peking banquet last week for Jean-Bédel Bokassa, President of the Central African Republic, Chinese Vice Premier Li Hsien-nien accused the Soviets of "criminal actions" in Africa and of offering China "nothing but threats." The Soviet ambassador stalked out of the banquet...
This September, the exclusion of two Asian American women from the Minority Banquet called into question the University of non-minority status for Asian Americans. Since then, many individuals and organizations have united in support of the Coalition of Asian Americans' demands for minority recognition...
...Kuumba Singers. Dean Epps has yet to respond. On October 15, the Coalition of Asian Americans presented their demands to Dean Epps. Again, Dean Epps failed to respond. The letter sent on October 28 by Josephine Lok and Bet Har Wong, the women excluded from the Minority Banquet, has not been answered by Dean Epps. Finally, the statement delivered to Dean Epps on November 4 from the Task Force on Affirmative Action remains unanswered...
...COLLEGE'S REFUSAL to admit two Chinese women to a freshman minority orientatio banquet earlier this year irritated a sensitive nerve in relations between the University and Asian-American students in the Harvard community. The issue, which appears at the moment to be stalemated, brought to the forefront a disparity in the definitions of "minorities" utilized by the federal Department of Health, Education and welfare and by the University: the former includes Asian-Americans, the latter does not. But while the quarrel has to date centered primarily on this rather technical issue, the questions raised go far deeper, extending...
...Life of Jesus. "We shot the prison scenes in a real dungeon in a castle in Tunisia," recalls York. "I spent the day actually chained to the wall. It wasn't hard to feel the part." For his final scene at King Herod's banquet, of course, York could appear only in the form of an elaborately made-up piece of sculpture, which enabled him to observe, "I had the privilege of seeing my own head right there on the plate...