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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blandly dismiss the obvious trends toward independent action free of U.S. domination that are now taking place in Latin America. Indeed, you state that Latin America has a "special relationship" with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Jun. 16, 1975 | 6/16/1975 | See Source »

Healing Wounds. Wilson, however, has reportedly decided not to dismiss Benn from his Cabinet; to do so would only aggravate the party wounds that Wilson now hopes to heal. But to restore confidence in his government's ability to check inflation, Wilson will probably shift Benn-whose proposals to step up public ownership of industry have made him anathema to Britain's business and financial community-to a less economically powerful Cabinet ministry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Saying 'Yes' to Europe | 6/16/1975 | See Source »

When the board decides if a union-forming election should be held, it should dismiss Harvard's protests, and allow Medical Area employees their own collective bargaining unit. District 65's lawyers have shown that the Medical Area is very much a separate entity within the larger University. And Harvard's claim that the union should include workers throughout the University is little more than an attempt to head off a union altogether. The organizing drive in Cambridge is far less advanced than that at the Medical Area, and a decision by the NLRB against a Medical Area union would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1975: Triumphs and Troubles | 6/12/1975 | See Source »

...ally down. But it was inevitable after Congress pulled the rug out from under the President with the War Powers Act. Hanoi was home free at that moment, for our only trump was gone. Other countries in Southeast Asia must be lonely and frightened. People who dismiss the domino theory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: After the Fall: Reactions and Rationales | 5/12/1975 | See Source »

...about 30 students took over Pearlman Hall, the sociology building, and held it despite an injunction ordering them out. They demanded that the university drop plans to cut back its Transitional Year Program (which helps train many poorly prepared minority students for undergraduate work), to reduce financial aid and dismiss some faculty. Brandeis, which has a projected budget of $32.8 million for next year, is suffering from inflated costs and the recession; this year its income from gifts is $3 million below projections. If the cuts go through, the students said, Brandeis would "become even richer and whiter," by saving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Budget Cuts: The New Campus Issue | 5/12/1975 | See Source »

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