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...Chinese will be able to use U.S. medical instruments and American-made road rollers and pavers, drive U.S. passenger cars and motor scooters, or cruise up the Yangtze in boats powered by American outboard motors. Chinese housewives will be able, if their government does not deem it too decadent, to whip up sweet cakes with U.S.-made mixers and enjoy the marvels of American household appliances. Chinese office buildings and department stores will be able to install American elevators, escalators, furnaces and air-conditioning equipment. In a bid for U.S. grain sales to China, Nixon annulled the old "50% clause...
Ropes and Gray concluded that the statutes of the University define "faculty" to include only Corporation appointees. "Under the foregoing provisions," the opinion states, "students are not included in the membership of the faculty. However, the Corporation, if it should deem it appropriate as a matter of policy to do so, could adopt a standing vote permitting any faculty to include in its membership students appointed by the Corporation for that purpose. Any student so appointed to a faculty could, as a member of the faculty, participate in its business...
...faculty. There are also informal devices for skirting formal action by the Corporation and achieving the practical effect of a student vote. For instance, the Law School's Administrative Board permits decisions to hinge on a vote of the entire Board, students included, in cases which its faculty members deem appropriate. And the Divinity School is governed, without the objection of the Corporation, by what the Governance Committee terms "a kind of Athenian democracy of faculty and students on a one-man-one-vote basis...
...case, the U.S. would need to apply considerably more pressure than it is now exerting if it expects to persuade the Israelis to change their position on issues affecting what they deem to be their basic security and survival amid unfriendly neighbors. "If they send the Marines," Defense Minister Moshe Dayan smilingly advised, "I would suggest that we give in." At this point, though, nothing less than the Marines seems capable of budging the Israelis...
...could not deem myself a slave...