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...eventual joint ventures beyond the earth. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, on his way home from a U.S. visit, became the first Soviet official of his rank ever to visit West Germany; while there, he conferred with Bonn's Foreign Minister Walter Scheel and hinted that a break-through might he near in the big-power talks on Berlin, which reconvene this week. But there has also been abundant evidence of a chill in other areas, such as Cuba and the Middle East. And then there is the strange, still unresolved U-8 affair...
...took three months and the death of Martin Luther King to push them through. They came finally with a faculty vote on April 10. In important ways, the spate of proposals constituted a real break-through in the School's urban posture. Voting to recruit minority group students, the faculty struck down the School's traditional definition of competence, admitting for the first time that race and ghetto experience are important. "The way we've been recruiting minority group students," Sizer said right after the April 10 meeting, "was the wrong...
LAST Friday's agreement on Paris negotiations is an encouraging break-through, but despite Administration jubilance, the development is not a blanket vindication of U.S. peace policies to date. Waging a quibbling tug of war, the U.S. has dragged a concession on negotiating sites from Hanoi, but substantive talks are going to demand more flexibility and consistency than U.S. diplomats showed during last month's peace campaign...
...economist. I cannot advise the Urban League how to enlist greater employer cooperation or how to speed the training of Negroes for better jobs. Instead, at this point of break-through in job opuportunities let me give you an economist's perspective, some qutantitative indication of the task to be met before economic equality can be a reality...
...recent trial of two Russian writers, though it ended Monday in their conviction, may have been an important break-through in the struggle for civil liberties in the Soviet Union, Harold J. Berman, professor of Law, said yesterday. Berman, one of the country's leading experts on Soviet law, said that authors Andrel D. Sinyavsky and Yull M. Daniel are the first Soviet political defendents who were not pressured to plead guilty and who were permitted to have an active defense...