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There is no reason to gripe about changing the spelling of Peking to Beijing. Beijing is much closer to the Chinese pronunciation. One thing we can do to get even is to ask the Chinese to quit calling the U.S. capital "Huashendun" and the current President "Kate...
...Carter Administration. Although the U.S. and Britain refused to send official observers to this month's elections in Rhodesia, the Tories sent their own. If, in their view, the elections are "reasonably fair and free," the Conservatives may recognize an independent Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, and propose an end to current United Nations sanctions - against the breakaway British colony...
...About 120,000 people from outlying provinces move to Athens every year, with the result that 40% of Greece's citizenry are now packed into the capital. The migrants come for the few available jobs, which are usually no better than the ones they fled. At the current rate of migration, Athens by the year 2000 will have a population of 6.5 million, more than half the nation...
...current import quota of 1.5 billion Ibs. annually, or 5.5% of the total beef consumed in the U.S., is about as high as it can go. Because of beef shortages elsewhere in an increasingly affluent and meat-eating world, only Australia and New Zealand can increase their import allotments. Those two could be lifted by 50 million Ibs., to a total barely enough to meet one one-thousandth of U.S. beef needs. Local consumer boycotts, like New York City's "Beefless Wednesday" campaign, signal cattlemen that demand for beef is dropping and that further herd cutbacks are in order...
Wesley E. Profit '69, instructor in psychology at the McLEAN Hospital and another author of the letter, said yesterday the current dissatisfaction with Harvard's policy toward its South Africa related investments "shows that the University hasn't learned anything in the last ten years...