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The report says, "It is clear to this Committee that there is significant opposition to anything at Harvard that suggests a concession to racial separatism," adding, "...the perception of separatism persists, and...the perception almost always assures the reality." The rest of the report is an attempt to outline a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Only The First Step | 2/3/1981 | See Source »

Third World students for the time being are expressing cautious optimism publicly, but privately some admit that they face a dilemma. They view the proposal as a concession and with respect to Harvard's rhetoric-filled but action-barren history they are right. But they also realize that any criticism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Only The First Step | 2/3/1981 | See Source »

In Warsaw, meanwhile, union leaders called a four-hour bus and streetcar strike at week's end to protest threatened pay cuts for workers who had stayed away from their jobs the previous Saturday. Other stoppages took place in the southern towns of Legnica and Mielec. Solidarity accused the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: The Government Gets Tough | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

Begin was caught in a collision between two headstrong members of his government. On one side was Finance Minister Yigal Hurvitz, a tough administrator who has repeatedly threatened to resign and now stood adamantly opposed to any concession to the teachers. He argued that the proposed pay hikes would cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: One Crisis Too Many | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

Precisely at midnight, Poland's Communist-controlled radio gulped, then sent out over the air waves the combined symbol of the nation's rebirth and peril: midnight Mass. Though most Poles were at that moment in their own parish churches, the broadcast from Cracow's Wawel Cathedral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: Rebirth and Peril | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

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