Word: directer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite our post-Viet Nam aversion to direct military involvement of any sort, the Zaïre invasion by Marxist rebels seems another oblique push from Mother Russia, and one which will necessitate action if similar activities continue to occur. The question is when will Jimmy Carter draw the line on this conspicuous, albeit indirect, Soviet expansionism...
Hillsdale College in southern Michigan started admitting blacks and women before the Civil War and has no record of discrimination. It accepts no direct federal aid. Nevertheless, HEW is threatening to cut off federal loans and other assistance to some of the school's students because it will not fill out forms on the status of women at the college. HEW claims to be basing its action on a Justice Department ruling, and the case is now being heard by an administrative judge in Washington. For Hillsdale, resistance is a matter of principle. It has embarked on a fund-raising...
...Army Faction. The Italian terrorists who kidnaped and eventually killed former Premier Aldo Moro flaunt themselves as the Red Brigades. Noting the similarity both in names and methods, many Europeans have wondered about possible links between the two organizations. Did West Germany's R. A.F., for instance, have a direct hand in Moro's murder, as many believe? Last week two new and unexpected clues to that puzzle came to light. They added up to?maybe...
...veto the bill if it passes, but instead of fighting any price fixing, he has come forward with a halfway measure. It would pay subsidies to farmers and, in effect, boost sugar prices to 14.4¢ per Ib. This proposal would cost the public an extra $120 million in direct payments, plus possibly millions more to underwrite federal support if sugar prices fail to rise high enough to enable farmers to redeem their Government loans. The Administration proposal has so little support on Capitol Hill that no Congressman has agreed to sponsor it. Because it would keep the price...
...order to conduct federal research projects. Recent decisions by President Carter--including an 11 per cent increase for 1979 in basic research funds for universities and the proposed formation of a separate Department of Education--make research costs all the more important. There are two kinds of research expenses--direct and indirect. Direct expenses include those which provide for lab instruments, technicians and other specifically earmarked items. Both the government and Harvard agree that these costs should be covered by the group directly benefiting from the research efforts...