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...University's willingness this year to scrap past promises or reconsider time-honored policies that reflected the best of Harvard. On two of this year's signal issues--the temporary decisions to end the University's absolute ban on investment in banks that loan to South Africa, and to cancel the Fogg Museum's proposed new wing. Harvard precipitously discarded earlier promises...
...assumption that the University will provide academic sustenance immune to reversal, as shown by the University's decision this February to cancel a badly needed extension to its lamed Fogg Museum. President Bok and the Corporation cited fund shortages when they suddenly announced the wing's cancellation, stunning Fine Arts professors and museum officials, among many others. The extension was planned to give the museum the proper display space for its valuable works and to provide essential office space and studio areas...
...Thursday, however, Ohio Democrat Mary Rose Oakar proposed an amendment to the Republican budget that would cancel a threeyear, $23.3 billion reduction in planned Medicare spending* and take the money instead out of defense outlays. To the astonishment of leaders of both parties, the House passed the amendment, 227 to 196; some 64 Republicans, apparently worried about the effect of Medicare cuts on their re-election campaigns, voted for it. That destroyed the coalition behind the Republican plan; many conservatives would no longer support the proposal with the amendment, and it lost 235 to 192. But no other working coalition...
Within Latin America, paradoxically, public emotions were restrained. Resident or visiting Americans encountered no demonstrations urging " Yanqui go home." Nor were there any anti-American mobs of the sort that pelted Vice President Richard Nixon with eggs in 1958 and forced Governor Nelson Rockefeller to cancel official visits to Chile, Peru and Venezuela in 1969. Although popular sentiment has been running in Argentina's favor, the most violent reactions have been the burning of a few British and U.S. flags in Caracas...
...that would be different. He would have to dissociate himself from that. But he has constantly stressed that his visit is a pastoral visit," which by Vatican thinking means that the Pope could tour England without appearing to choose sides between the Argentines and British. Indeed, to cancel the trip might imply that Britain is in the wrong and thus exacerbate antipapal feelings there. Militant Protestants have already marched in the streets of several British cities to protest the expected visit. While a go decision would naturally not sit well with Argentina, the planning has reached such an advanced state...