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...recent article on the Student Assembly sponsored concert this coming weekend, Mark Urfirer expresses his dismay and surprise at the lack of student interest in the event. While I share his dismay, believing too that a regular rock venue at Harvard would be a valuable asset, I do not, however, share his surprise...
BLACK AT YALE is not, however, a condemnation of Black students at Yale, but is instead a serious and balanced study of their role in society. While some people express dismay, others are hopeful. "These are the ones that's going to speak up for us," one Black man says. Others believe that the Black students at Yale will advance and help other Blacks. Rivers is upset, but not bitter; he wants more Blacks to wake up and he hopes they will. A student interviewed at the outset of the movie feels similarly; he has reservations but believes that what...
...dispute had become one of the most serious crises in the history of the relations between the U.S. and its allies. Tensions on both sides, which have been mounting for months, last week broke into the open, to the great dismay of allied capitals and the obvious delight of Moscow. If not brought rapidly under control, the growing storms could weaken the very ties that have enabled the leading nations of the free world to act in concert on security issues since the end of World War II. A major Soviet goal in the past three decades has been...
What touched off the immediate uproar was the Carter Administration's open dismay over what it regards as the lack of backing by the allies for Washington's responses to the twin crises of the American hostages in Iran and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In the long run, the Afghan crisis is almost certain to be the more difficult for the allies to confront with a common policy. While the U.S. will continue pushing for relatively tough countermoves, its partners will hesitate, feeling that the issue is peripheral to their own security. What is more, the allies doubt that...
Sharp U.S. dismay with the allies began to mount when Washington reluctantly concluded that tough measures were becoming necessary because the Iranian moderates either would not or could not secure the release of the American hostages. Typical of the disheartening news from Iran was the report the White House received last week that the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini was not planning to release the hostages until, after the U.S. elections in November. In a note at the end of March, Carter requested the allies to make public statements and use their diplomats in Tehran to pressure the Iranians. Says a White...