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Despite the numerous articles that were collected, Moir said yesterday that "95 per cent of their cultural value was lost since the digging disrupted the stratification pattern." Moir said it may be possible to reconstruct the pattern by comparing the artifacts with those found in an undisturbed area...
...successfully acquire from the faculty and administration. Most delegates soon realized they would have to make some major compromises if the proposed constitution were to be ratified by a majority of the student population, and gain official approval. The Constitution eventually won the approval of more than 75 per cent of the undergraduate student body...
...leaders of groups against Harvard's investment policy contend that even if American companies were to initiate labor reforms, the firms would have no practical effect on the apartheid system because they employ only four-tenths of 1 per cent of the black work force in South Africa. American companies in which Harvard holds stock serve only to bolster the apartheid system by supplying the South African white-minority government with the funds it needs to continue building a strong military and police force, the anti-apartheid group...
...military equipment, and finance to the white-minority regime. As all United States corporations together employ 70,000 blacks in South Africa, to see how any improvement in their workers conditions will break down apartheid. At the same time, U.S. investors provide such crucial inputs as oil (40 per cent of the country's needs) and computers (IBM has sold them to both the Defence Department and the Atomic Energy Board in South Africa...
...results of this survey contradict the results of two other recent polls. In April, The New York Times and CBS News found that 83 per cent of their sample favored a tax reduction to offset the costs of college tuition. A Gallup Poll taken in the spring showed 51 per cent of those surveyed favored tax credits, while only 34 per cent supported Carter's plan...