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Last year the 41 proposals we dealt with covered a wide range of corporate activity, from a call on Emerson Electric to adopt ethical criteria for accepting military contracts: to a demand that Merck & Co. cease making contributrions to charitable organizations and non-profit institutions: to an appeal to Standard Oil of California. Baxter Travenol, Texaco, and Xerox to abide by minimal standard of ethical conduct in their South African operations or withdraw from that country...
...inspired Penn squash dealt the Harvard women's swimming team a crushing defeat 80-59, Saturday in Philadelphia...
...seizure of Phnom Malai cemented Vietnamese control over a key part of the frontier region, which until November provided a zone of sanctuary for the coalition of 60,000 Communist and non-Communist guerrillas who are carrying on the fight against Hanoi. The Vietnamese also dealt a sharp blow to the Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge's reputation for toughness. A mere 48 hours before the Vietnamese struck, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the anti-Hanoi coalition's nominal head, had paid a visit to Phnom Malai to announce support from a scattering of Third World nations. During Sihanouk's visit, Khieu Samphan...
...events and real people, but often include invented dialogue, characters and even entire scenes. Dozens of docudramas have been made, on subjects ranging from the history of American slavery, in Roots, to the perjury trial of Alger Hiss in last year's Emmy Award-winner Concealed Enemies. Many have dealt with personalities, living or dead, who still figure in national political debate...
...action differed from the way the University and the Faculty dealt with a similar complaints of harassment two years ago involving Professor of Government Jorge I. Dominguez. According to published reports, Dominguez was stripped of a prestigious committee chairmanship, but not of his tenure. Since that time, Harvard has refused to confirm or deny the incident or punishment, saying only that a serious case of harassment took place...