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...divestiture movement is developing into the Viet Nam issue of the late 1970s," says exiled black South African Dennis Brutus, professor of English at Northwestern, and a leader of the campaign to get universities to ditch stock of companies doing business in South Africa. The universities of Massachusetts and Wisconsin, among others, have responded to student demands that such stock be sold to protest South Africa's apartheid policies, while debate over the issue has caused demonstrations at Princeton, Stanford and Columbia. But in an open letter to students last week, Harvard President Derek Bok presented his university...
...meet a New York Times reporter. She hoped to document her charges that officials at the installation, owned by the Kerr-McGee Corp., had continually and carelessly exposed their employees to one of the world's most dangerous metals: plutonium. But after the car was towed from the ditch, the papers could not be found...
HANOVER, N.H.--Clutch foul shooting by Dartmouth thwarted a last-ditch Harvard comeback as the Big Green held on to defeat the Crimson cagers, 77-74, here in Thompson Arena last night before a sparse gathering...
...Mexico City agenda: smuggling, fishing rights, narcotics and Carter's staple, human rights. But the President's three days in Mexico City will be basically an exercise in emotional diplomacy. After months ol frustration over SALT, Iran and other foreign policy problems -including the last-ditch meeting of Egyptian and Israeli Foreign Ministers to be held at Camp David on Feb. 20-the President looks on Mexico as an area in which he can make headway. In fact his low-keyed, unimperial presidency may be exactly what is needed. As a top White House adviser said...
...FIVE MONTHS in Winston-Salem confirmed some of my preconceptions--and biases--about the South. But it shattered more. I met tax-revolters and tobacco farmers at the Grange Hall (to their delight, I parked my car and stepped out into a ditch), textile heirs at the Hyatt House and "spirit-filled" Christians at weekend barbecues. I baked Moravian sugar cakes and giggled through a meal in a restaurant that sandwiched its Virginia ham between slices of kosherrye...