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...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) recently-cancelled its June trip to Poland in response to the U.S. State Department's freeze on funds provided for cultural exchange with Communist-bloc countries, E. Carr Everbach '82, business manager for HRO, said yesterday...
After tentatively approving the report, which ACSR members will have a chance to read fully and object to in the next day or so, the committee vetoed four shareholder resolutions including one that seeks to force Occidental Petroleum to end all trade with "Communist-bloc" nations...
...matter to the commission's plenary (and public) session this week, demanding that a five-member subcommittee be named to look into the question of human rights violations in Uganda. The British figure that, if the 19-member Third World majority-with or without help from five Communist-bloc members-scuttle the proposal this time, the commission's double standard would be demonstrated as never before...
...anything be done to stop this vast and insane flow of weapons? Only a few attempts at arms control have succeeded. The Antarctic is a "weapons-free zone," and NATO and Japan for the past quarter-century have voluntarily refrained from exporting strategic goods to Communist-bloc nations. The U.S. imposes elaborate restrictions on the sale of the shoulder-fired Redeye anti aircraft missile because it could be disastrous if the easy-to-use weapon fell into the hands of terrorists, who could then fire it at civilian airliners...
...coincidence that the worst of the decisions against U.S. athletes were made by European judges, especially those from Communist-bloc countries, which attach great political significance to Olympic performance and seem to regard their athletes as instruments of foreign policy. U.S. Wrestler Wayne Wells, a gold-medal winner, has his own notion: "It's the way they've been brought up. What's cheating to us is not cheating to them." The pivotal problem is that the judges are originally picked by member nations, leaving the Olympic Committee little choice but to rubber-stamp the nominations...