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...coffers has been useful but the funds have also led to a dependency which Bok does not view as entirely benign. In the past decade, he writes, the government has assumed an increasingly active and direct role in the affairs of private universities. Because they could not survive a cutoff of funds, the institutions have had to tolerate "unwise" and "intrusive" regulations in such areas as privacy of student records, affirmative action, retirement pension plans and protection of human subjects in scientific research...
...cutoff times for all events has plunged drastically since last year's tournament. Qualification time in the 50 yard breaststroke a year ago was 36.7 seconds and within a year has fallen to a blazing...
...Cyprus until a "legitimate representative" of the island republic had signed. During a private meeting, Ford offered Turkish Premier Süleyman Demirel $50 million in grant aid if he would return control of military bases in Turkey to the U.S. Angry over the U.S. Congress's cutoff of aid, Demirel refused (see story page...
This led to a congressionally mandated cutoff of aid to Turkey effective last February, though other factors played a major role: 1) the Turkish use of American military weapons on Cyprus clearly violated U.S. laws banning their offensive employment and a specific agreement between Washington and Ankara against shipment of such weapons to Cyprus without Washington's consent; 2) Congress was growing increasingly restive over what many legislators considered Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's highhanded management of U.S. foreign policy...
...Both Greece and Turkey are geopolitically situated in such a way that their ultimate best interests will lie with continued association with the West. We can only hope that American politics will facilitate that understanding. In that sense, I've been propounding the shortsightedness of the Turkish aid cutoff...