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...Chinese seem ambivalent about the U.S. election. For them, the key criterion by which to judge a U.S. President is: Where does he stand in the Sino-Soviet dispute? While Carter's advocacy of a tougher policy toward Moscow clearly pleases the Chinese, they know almost nothing else about him. Ford apparently has failed to impress them, and Peking accuses him of having a "Munich mentality." Translation: Ford has been too concerned about improving U.S. relations with Moscow...
Derrick A. Bell, Jr., professor of Law, said yesterday that "the type of admissions program with which the California decision deals has become obsolete. Our minority program here at Harvard really encompasses the majority. It is only a part of the rather broad and subjective criterion that admissions people use. These kinds of programs are less subject to legal attacks of this sort...
...real problem, Friedenthal said, is that smaller professional schools, without the drawing power of institutions like Harvard and Stanford, would "get locked into a system where test scores are the only criterion...
...Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, as a non-aligned country, has been striving to have respect for independence become the basic criterion of international behavior. This is the lasting principle of our foreign policy...
Since individuals have the right to associate freely, however, the government is not justified in enforcing the merit criterion any more than it is justified in enforcing quotas. In a free society people should have the right to voluntarily establish private institutions run on any basis they may choose, as well as the right to hire whom they want, the right to form schools of whatever composition they desire, and the right to offer their productive services as widely or selectively as they wish. An opinion has already been expressed here concerning the principle on which they should base these...