Word: electives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Spokesmen for President-elect Jimmy Carter's transition team yesterday denied published reports that the incoming administration has held off on key White House appointments while transition staffers debate a reorganization study submitted to them by Graham T. Allison '62, professor of public administration at the Kennedy School of Government...
President-elect Carter's choice of Cyrus Vance as Secretary of State is disappointing for a number of reasons. As a Defense Department official during the Johnson administration, Vance participated in high-level policy-making in the period when the United States was maximizing its involvement in Vietnam. Vance did not protest the war, he did not resign his post, and indeed by representing the U.S. at the Paris peace talks, he served as an active instrument of the Johnson war policy. These factors alone should disqualify him from holding the highest foreign policy office in the nation...
President-elect Carter has promised to reevaluate thoroughly U.S. military and political commitments to South Korea. Carter should make good on this pledge early in his term. In addition Carter should inform foreign governments that the U.S. will not tolerate foreign interference in U.S. domestic politics. He should back up this policy by proscribing FBI involvement in foreign intelligence agencies' U.S. operations and by ordering the FBI to monitor closely the activities of U.S.-based foreign intelligence operatives...
Michael Harrington, author of "The Other America," and the national chairman of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, told an audience in Emerson Hall last night that the American left should support "without illusions" President-elect Jimmy Carter's effort to achieve full employment and implement the policies of the Democratic platform...
Journalists must shed their "pretense of neutrality" and become more political in their reporting, Robert Scheer, the reporter who interviewed President-elect Carter for Playboy magazine, said last night during a panel discussion at the Science Center...