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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Byrd and Baker combined to draft amendments to the treaties containing exactly the language of the "clarification" -then deftly persuaded the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to omit it so that a host of Senators could co-sponsor the amendments and thus claim credit for protecting U.S. interests in the Panama Canal Zone. By week's end, 78 Senators had signed on as cosponsors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Opening the Great Canal Debate | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

...were chopping [the Viet Cong's] heads off," Dern announces, almost matter-of-factly, "and that's what they were into." In another, Luke speaks before an assembly of high school boys, counseling them to avoid the draft. "There was a lot of shit over there I find f- ing hard to live with," Luke tells the kids, as his voice starts to crack. "But I don't feel sorry for myself. I'm just saying that there's a choice to be made." At such moments Coming Home, like Shampoo before it, reminds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Dark at the End off the Tunnel | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

...draft proposal, which the Faculty Council began debating this week, retains the same five basic areas that the Faculty decided on last spring: Letters and Arts, History, Social and Philosophical Analysis, Mathematics and Science, and Foreign Languages and Culture...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: More of the Core | 2/18/1978 | See Source »

Students who managed to sneak through high school with a thorough knowledge of their times tables, but not much more, will be disappointed if one key proposal passes. In what one CUE member said was a move to satisfy the University's "science people," the draft plan calls for each student to demonstrate a minimum degree of competence in mathematics...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: More of the Core | 2/18/1978 | See Source »

...needs to have one, mind you--is simply awesome. Ivy titles in 1969, '76 and '77, and the NIT title in 1974. Upset wins versus North Carolina (a 16-pointer, with McAdoo and Jones playing for the opposition), Notre Dame, South Carolina, Oregon, Providence, Alabama, et al. First-round draft picks the likes of Geoff Petrie, John Hummer, Brian Taylor and Armond Hill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pete Carril Keeps on Pluggin' | 2/18/1978 | See Source »

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