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...advocating demonstrations, the NAC has said that large numbers of people must participate before any of the goals can be achieved. No one is organized by violence. Any assault on people or property serves only to divert attention from the legitimate demands of the demonstration...
...practical cause for hope is the desire on both sides to cut military weapons expenditures. Billions for new nuclear armaments not only divert funds from other needs, but are soon vitiated as each side keeps pace with the other. As the talks open, both Russia and the U.S. are mid-course in the development of ABM and MIRV - and the hardest, most suspicion-ridden bargaining of the sessions will center on them. The defensive ABM complex, which is already operational around Moscow, is due to be installed in twelve widely scattered U.S. sites. MIRV (for multiple individually targeted re-entry...
...Faculty. We think that such a result can best be achieved through a wider use of joint student-faculty committees which meet at stated intervals to discuss matters of common interest. We realize from our own experience that such committees consume a great deal of time and energy and divert both their student and faculty members from their personal academic concerns. But we would also urge that they can perform a very important function in dissolving mistrust, building mutual understanding, and providing students with avenues of meaningful participation in the life of the departments and the Faculty as a whole...
Inside Dillon Field House instead of the usual mimeographed depth charts: there were green sheets with one word on them-"Ivy." The managers had made the sheets partly to divert the players from thinking about B.U. But a look at the injury list made the sheets seem discomfiting...
...purchase price instead of the present 30% and pay off the remainder in 18 months instead of 21. For house hold appliances and furniture, the down payment will be 40%-up from 30%-and the term will be shortened from 18 months to 15. To encourage consumers to divert their money into savings accounts, interest rates will be raised from...