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...emotional speech last week, Allende charged that Anaconda and Kennecott had done everything possible to damage the economy of the nation. Nonetheless, most observers believe that Allende is too pragmatic to risk the kind of bitterness that could follow if the companies are denied fair compensation, and will finally consent to a settlement approaching $1 billion. Only recently Chile negotiated agreements with four U.S. companies on terms that proved much more favorable than had been anticipated...
...known that the American and Vietnamese people are not enemies. The war is carried out in the name of the people of the United States, but without our consent. It destroys the land and the people of Vietnam. It drains America of her resources, her youth and her honor...
...Garden Street and we should please never walk through the Common at night without an escort. This warning was met with nervous laughter and pseudo-sophisticated scorn. Everyone continued to walk defiantly through the Common, whether attended or not, no one got raped without at least first giving her consent, and when, that spring, a man wandered off the street into Jordan J and stabbed a girl with an ice-pick, only a few of the more misanthropic girls I knew began locking their doors before they went to sleep at night...
...come off as Machiavellian, in the Carswell case harebrained better describes their style. John Mitchell reportedly thought Carswell "too good to be true"; Nixon studied the Constitution diligently and concluded, quite literally, that "it is the duty of the President to appoint and of the Senate to advise and consent." And Senator Hruska, a special friend of the White House, sat like Christopher Robin clutching his Pooh bear on the step of mediocrity half way up and half way down the stair: "Even if he (Carswell) were mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They...
Harvard has decided to crack down in September on several charter flight organizations which are chartering for Harvard students without the written consent of the University...