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...special problems they face at Harvard, and would in no way represent a triumph of separatism. Perhaps most notably, minority groups and the administration have continued to view proposals for a Third World Center from diametrically opposed perspectives; the administration claims it would be divisive, the student groups contend it would be a source of support and would enhance campus unity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Long Way to Go | 5/3/1984 | See Source »

Even if he does nothing but chat over salad. Richardson will be the force to contend with in this crucial Senate election...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Richardson Plays Cool in Senate Bid | 5/1/1984 | See Source »

...insisting on a briefing on CIA activities in Nicaragua early this year, and for failing to question Casey on references he made to the mining when he did meet with them twice in March. (The House Intelligence Committee was briefed on Jan. 31.) Still, Moynihan and others contend that Casey, at minimum, did not fulfill the command of the 1980 law that he apprise the committees of even "any significant anticipated intelligence activity." The mining had begun about a month before the House Intelligence Committee briefing. Indeed, raids on Puerto Sandino last Sept. 8 and on the oil-storage tanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Place Left to Hide? | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

...hand, Klein also showed the photo to the bus driver and four passengers; all five said that the man was not one of the terrorists. "I can't say the matter is clear-cut either way," Klein told TIME Jerusalem Correspondent David Halevy. Abu-Gumaa's relatives contend that the picture proves that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: Grave Doubts | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

...what about mind control How likely is that semiotics could be turned around on the members of the culture that invented at Despite studies of places like Castro's Cuba there researchers seem fairly certain that the possible ends of the project are not nefarious. Blonsky and Des Noes contend that there are mostly hopeful possibilities for the ideas in semiotics helpful ideas for ways in which businesses can encourage new and important already accepted social trends. Since all of the analysts agree that the systems which semiotic advertising tap into have to exist-before the tapping...

Author: By Jonathan S. Sapers, | Title: Read This and Fall in Love | 4/26/1984 | See Source »

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