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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stephen V.R.Winthrop '80, former chairman of the assembly, said this week he will try to force the assembly to conduct a college-wide binding referendum to decide whether the assembly should permit political parties...
Jimmy Carter last week defended his conduct of American foreign policy before a group of newspaper editors and broadcasters assembled in Washington. Some excerpts: "Recent events, particularly in Iran and Southeast Asia, have touched off a national debate about what America's role should be in dealing with turbulence and in trying to guide inevitable change...
...sympathy was strained even further when Police Union Leader Vincent J. Bruno, related by marriage to New Orleans Mafioso Carlos Marcello, told reporters, "If the talks break down, we'll wreck the city." He later apologized, but not before both local papers had run frontpage editorials denouncing police conduct. Last week the police reduced their demands, but the strike went...
...Vietnamese easily outmaneuvered Peking in the propaganda war if not on the battlefield. They issued virulent denunciations of Chinese conduct, including alleged atrocities and biological warfare. Radio Hanoi claimed that Chinese warplanes bombed factories, power plants and communications centers, inflicting "terrible" damage and civilian casualties, and that Chinese artillery fired "chemical shells" at border targets. Backing up its ally, the Soviet Union accused Chinese troops of indiscriminately burning down villages and shooting women and children. Pravda, in a dispatch from Lang Son, alleged that a Chinese unit intercepted a civilian bus on a country road and executed all the passengers...
...best way to approach the new China and its new policies of modernization is with a sense of historical perspective, beginning with perspective on ourselves. But more than that is needed. Why can't American firms working in China conduct their own impact studies to find out what effect they are having, perhaps unintentionally? If they are to make massive material changes, they should be able to afford a sinological capacity to study Chinese society and its problems. We are smart enough now to demand that the whole environmental picture be looked at, when business firms expand their installations...