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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were common: "In a defiant reply to charges made last week by Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, President Pusey yesterday declared Harvard is 'absolutely, unalterably and finally opposed to Communism,' and so far as he knows there are no communists on the Harvard faculty." Earlier, an accusation by a former Central Intelligence Agency agent forced John K. Fairbank '29, then professor of History and now Higginson Professor of History Emeritus, to issue a statement saying he had "never been a communist, nor a communist sympathizer." Denials like this were frequent, but more accusations poured out anyway...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: 25 Years of Over-Achieving | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...rally, at Sennott Park, near Central Square, will feature speeches by members of the Cambridge Community, and representatives of the labor and antinuclear movements. Dorothy Boudreau, a member of the MFS and an organizer of the protest, said yesterday...

Author: By Richard F. Strasser, | Title: Two Groups to Sponsor Rally Protesting Nuclear Arms Race | 5/29/1979 | See Source »

...enough, Louis makes no mention of Moscow's difficulties with its own ethnic minorities, which constitute 53% of the Soviet Union's population, as compared with a total 6% minority population in China. Yet it was a revolt of the Soviets' restive minorities that provided a central drama a decade ago in the prophecy by Soviet Dissident Andrei Amalrik, Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984? After serving a term of exile in Siberia, Amalrik was allowed to emigrate to the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Political Perversity | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

...threat of more to come. First, Saudi Arabia appeared to renege on its year-old promise to buy 50 U.S. F-5 fighter planes for Egypt at a cost of $525 million. Then Saudi Arabia and Kuwait both threatened to withdraw their $1.6 billion in petrodollars from the Central Bank of Egypt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: The Rising Cost of Peace | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

Officials in Cairo insist that the country will weather the boycott. To counter the possible withdrawal of Saudi and Kuwaiti petrodollars, for example, the Central Bank reportedly will refuse to pay up. To rescue at least some of the A.O.I, arms contracts, Cairo hoped to go ahead with independent Egyptian production of military Jeeps designed by American Motors and Swingfire antitank missiles manufactured under British license...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: The Rising Cost of Peace | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

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