Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dean Fox yesterday declined to discuss his decision because he said he has not yet finished a formal letter to Tufts, but he did say he had weighed heavily his "desire not to take steps which would infringe on Quad residents...
Such a policy, however, is going to confront a number of obstacles. The multinationals are not likely to give up their profits without a fight, and the tiny elites who benefit from the export trade will not readily relinquish their positions. Lappe and Collins do not discuss in detail the problems faced by a country trying to make radical changes in its social structure, but they probably don't need to. The examples of countries like Chile, where efforts to institute socialism were brutally destroyed, make the forces arrayed against social change painfully evident...
...Administration, she organized a meeting of women officials who protested the President's decision to cut off federal funds for abortion. Costanza has always differed with Carter on this issue. "It was not a rebellion," she told TIME Washington Correspondent Bonnie Angelo. "It was a chance to discuss how to make him aware of other viewpoints. I'm a living example that you can differ with Jimmy Carter. I disagreed with him on three major issues. I was for full amnesty; I was for gay rights; I was for a stronger abortion position." Some colleagues would prefer that...
...made it clear that 1) no settlement in Rhodesia is possible with Smith in charge, and 2) the war will go on if leaders of the militant Patriotic Front are excluded from the transition process. Another, and more immediate problem is whether any moderate black leaders will agree to discuss Smith's plan. Already both Bishop Abel Muzorewa and the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, the most important nationalist leaders inside the country, have said that they will refuse to join the "broader based" Cabinet that Smith has proposed as a first step...
...bright East African sun. Inside, some 1,500 delegates from 110 nations sat in air-conditioned comfort. The splendid setting of the meeting could hardly have clashed more jarringly with its purpose. At the U.N.'s invitation, the representatives had gathered in the Kenyan capital last week to discuss and devise ways of containing what an increasing number of experts regard as a major environmental danger: the creeping, seemingly relentless spread of the earth's deserts...