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...foreign policy, Wilson veered a bit closer to the Common Market, with a statement that his government "would be ready to enter the European Economic Community provided essential British and Commonwealth interests were safeguarded." His Common Market pronouncements during the election campaign had baldly demanded that British conditions for entry-such as freedom to purchase wheat and sheep from Canada and Australia without import levies-be met before he would consider membership. Then came the little firecracker that almost everyone expected, even though many wondered why it should be lighted...
...debate on the Queen's Speech. To prepare for the wrangles to come, Heath trimmed his shadow Cabinet from 22 to 17 members, scrapping the last vestiges of ex-Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home's influence. Out to the back benches went former Ministers Duncan Sandys (Commonwealth and Colonies), Ernest Marples (Transport), Selwyn Lloyd (Chancellor of the Exchequer) and two others. Lloyd will aid Heath in reorganizing the Conservative Party at its weakest point-in the Labor-eroded northwest...
...about Pedlosky's chances of winning his suit. Several professors of Law have predicted that the oath will stand in the Supreme Judicial Court. The oath is widely regarded as an innocuous one; it has no disclaimer and merely requires signers to affirm loyalty to the constitutions of the Commonwealth and the United States and to promise to "faithfully discharge the duties" of their offices...
...consider the most effective remaining alternative: legislating the repeal of the oath by mobilizing sentiment on campuses throughout Massachusetts. If they sincerely believe that the loyalty pledge represents a threat to academic freedom, they should extend the campaign through petition from Harvard and M.I.T. to other colleges across the Commonwealth...
...crucial time of the final semester approaches, the administration should take effective measures to eliminate this pernicious deterrent to serious study. Harvard scarcely deserves to criticize the Commonwealth if it cannot maintain the purity of its own air. The movement to eradicate Nitric Oxide must begin at home...