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...building take-overs follow the announcement yesterday of a breakdown in negotiations between OBU and the administration on the question of Harvard hiring practices for black workers and the painters' helpers controversy...
...Because of the breakdown in negotiations, Massachusetts and University Halls-shown by experience to be likely targets for demonstrations-were locked yesterday and specially guarded...
...populated by the inevitable uxorious men, boastful lovers, and sagacious unfortunates. The song titles themselves suggest perturbable stoicism in the face of a vampire as their recurrent subject. Other possible concerns are the sexual connotations of fruits ("The Lemon Song"). the chinoiserie of the open fifth ("Black Mountain Breakdown"), and caetology ("Moby Dick...
...talks in Peking. Though the talks are believed to be stalemated, there have been no reports of renewed tension along the border. One explanation for the war preparations is that the Chinese, who seem genuinely afraid of Soviet military power, suspect that the Russians might seize on a breakdown in the talks as a pretext for launching a military strike against China. A war scare also serves Mao's domestic interests. Though 15 months ago he called an official halt to the disruptive Cultural Revolution that had brought the country to the verge of civil war, China remains wracked...
Police will go to Third District Court today to file "anarchy" charges against the group. The charges cover "plotting the breakdown of normal peace, order, and tranquility; and plotting the violent overthrow of the government...