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...small crowd of orderly demonstrators picketed outside the Harvard Provision Co. Saturday night for over two hours, despite attempts by some teenagers and Harvard football players to disrupt the picket line...
...prior to some kind of legal conclusion. Why then did he issue the pardon on Sept. 8? Ford did not really explain his sudden change of heart, except to say that he had become increasingly worried that the prosecution of the former President would generate passions that "would seriously disrupt the healing of our country from the wounds of the past...
...Assistant Secretary of State Joseph J. Sisco representing the U.S. - until decisions are near enough for foreign ministers to return to the dis cussion. Kissinger also prefers three-way negotiations in Washington. If they return to Geneva, he apparently fears, Soviet pressure there on behalf of the Palestinians might disrupt progress...
...halted immediately, the gases already in the atmosphere would cause a 10% reduction of ozone in the layer by 1990. That would result in a substantial increase of ultraviolet radiation on the earth, causing at the very least a greater incidence of skin cancer among humans. It might also disrupt the food chain by affecting food crops and plankton in the oceans. Lastly, the depletion of the ozone layer might have certain incalculable consequences like changing the earth's weather patterns...
...intervention to disrupt these activities, President Ford said, was "in the best interest of the people in Chile, and certainly in our best interest." And current U.S. foreign policy reveals that such a definition of U.S. interests is not an isolated case. Thirty-eight thousand American troops in South Korea are a key prop in the repressive regime of President Chung Hee Park in South Korea. An unending flow of economic aid to the Philippines enables President Ferdinand Marcos to throw any political dissenter into jail. Military and economic assistance to President Nguyen Van Thieu helps to keep...