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...case. Skocpol "was an unusually continuous teacher." A three-person committee of Harvard professors selected to review the case unanimously concluded that she had not been given a fair hearing and voted 2 to 1 that she had been the victim of sex discrimination. The hypocrisy of this tenure denial is pointed up by Professor Orlando Patterson, the Department's only Black. "What makes this case particularly unfortunate is that you're dealing with someone who is very, very good...It certainly does cast doubt on one's sincerity in saying one is looking for qualified women and Blacks." What...
Along with the briskly enforced blockade, the British are considering such actions as sabotage and the blowing up of Argentine supply dumps in the Falklands by special commando units infiltrated onto the islands, as they were onto South Georgia. Last week, the government first issued a rare denial, then a more routine "no comment," at reports that small groups of British troops are already on the Falklands...
...view of Leopolde Galtieri's military dictatorship. Argentina is the exemplar of the Administration's "totalitarian" but not "authoritarian" nation. Though Galtieri's junta never won popular support through open elections, though the government is notorious for its brutal treatment of guiltless political prisoners, and despite the regime's denial of free speech, free press, and open assembly, Reagan has preserved close ties with Buenos Aires. In exchange for U.S. support, Argentina has declared its open hostility to the Marxist forces on the continent, posing as an integral part of the U.S.-led "strategic frontier" against Moscow in the Western...
...case of Ephraim Isaacs, a former assistant professor in the department who was denied tenure in 1975, has come to symbolize for many students and alumni this question of departmental focus. Isaacs is a Black Ethiopian scholar, who is challenging his tenure denial as discrimination, and part of a concerted effort of the department to root out Africanists. They say that the Isaacs case is a crucial opportunity to force the department to study the African side as well. A leader of the alumni committee has said that limiting Afro-Am's focus to events since the slaves arrived...
...rally will also include speakers in support of Issacs and his charge of discrimination in his tenure denial. That case is still actively being pursued by Isaacs. Theodore Landsmark, his attorney, said last week...