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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Foreign reaction to the crackdown was immediate and caustic. State Department Spokesman Hodding Carter III said the Administration was "deeply disturbed" by what "seems to represent a very serious step backward." Other officials suggested that Washington might now be willing to consider diplomatic and economic sanctions against the South African...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Burning Bridges Between Races | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

The request to have the city purchase the Harvard-owned property is a stalling tactic, to hold the bulldozers back until the group can ask the state to consider changing a state law to make all academic institutions in Cambridge conform to zoning regulations.

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: Taking a Hard Line, Sort of | 10/29/1977 | See Source »

Most members of the Yale community consider Hannah Gray, Yale provost and acting president of the university, as a candidate still under consideration for the vacant post of president of the university, Yale students said yesterday...

Author: By Susan H. Goldstein, | Title: Yale President | 10/28/1977 | See Source »

The parallel is not overlooked by Protestant extremists, who use it to justify their claims of Catholic disloyalty and subversion. Catholic demands for civil rights and economic parity are therefore easily dismissed by Protestants, not so much out of disbelief, as out of an unyielding conviction that any concession moves...

Author: By Christopher Agee, | Title: Bleeding Ulster | 10/27/1977 | See Source »

Donovan has run into another conflict, which has arisen more and more as the Christian movement broadens. She is a Roman Catholic, and says she found it somewhat difficult to reconcile her new Christian beliefs--beliefs long associated with some of the more fundamentalist forms of Protestantism--with her Catholicism...

Author: By Anne E. Bartlett, | Title: By the Book: Fundamentalist Christians at Harvard | 10/26/1977 | See Source »

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