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...COULD DISPEL much of the latent tension on campus by assuming an active leadership role in both race relations and Third World student interests. When Pusey was asked what qualification he considered most important to his successor, he answered, "a belief in God." A Crimson editor commented in January...
...halftime in fact. The audience in the old, soon-to-be obsolescent IAB stomped and stamped, exhorting the Crimson defense. Seldom have so many Crimson hoop fans cheered so loudly for so long. And even if Bowers ultimately performed a one-man wrecking job, he could not dispel the image of a fired-up bunch of devotees in the cramped quarters...
...dispel the notion of some people that anyone will survive a nuclear war? How can we as doctors influence people to prevent any further buildup of nuclear arms?" These are not the questions of an American pacifist but of Dr. Yevgeni Chazov, the Soviet Union's deputy minister of health and an official physician to President Leonid Brezhnev. Moreover, Chazov's view is at variance with some statements by Soviet officials implying that since fewer Soviet citizens are likely to die in an atomic holocaust than Americans, the U.S.S.R. would therefore...
...echoing the views of some U.S. strategists, including the Hudson Institute's Colin Gray and Keith Payne, who have argued that "the U.S. must possess the ability to wage nuclear war rationally." Alarmed by such statements, some American and Soviet physicians have decided to begin a campaign to dispel what they consider to be a dangerous myth of survivability that may increase the possibility of a nuclear...
...might yet prevail and be reconfirmed as Party Chairman. Still, China's leaders were doing nothing to dispel stories that he had lost power. National newspapers lavishly displayed an article that was filled with oblique but unmistakable criticisms of Hua. "The party's prestige is not high now," the article declared, hardly needing to mention that Hua Guofeng has been the party's leader for nearly five years. Some leaders of the Central Committee made mistakes even after the downfall of the Gang of Four, the article went on, pointing specifically to a "cult of personality...