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...South African policy of apartheid is unacceptable and Harvard University must exert its influence to effect a change in this system. Perhaps immediate divestiture is not the answer, but if it is not, the members of the Harvard community -- administrators, students, alumni, faculty, and other employees -- must work together to determine what the answer...
Janus passed out forms entitled "Title IX Alert," urging students to exert pressure on congressmen by writing personal letters...
...continuing problem for the U.S. will be how to give the Shah sufficient support to preserve his present pro-Western policy without encouraging excessive demands for aid." With the massive oil deposits and valuable intelligence sites made available in Iran growing in importance the U.S. came to exert little pressure for reform and the Shah became less and less susceptible...
Systematic scientific studies of marijuana's benefits or dangers began with the isolation and synthesis in 1965 of the plant's principal psychoactive ingredient-delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol. But that is only one of more than 100 chemical substances in marijuana, some of which exert their own characteristic effects. Further hampering marijuana studies is the difficulty of screening out such other factors as environmental or genetic influences, and deciding what constitutes long-term use or heavy use. To date, most results have been based on studies of laboratory animals or small groups of healthy young men. Thus little...
...Chinese are taking crash courses in foreign languages. More than 1 million copies of Radio Peking's English course have been sold in the capital. Some 10,000 Chinese students will be dispatched to study overseas, a development that will exert a profound, lasting effect on Chinese culture as the students return. Some of the cultural juxtapositions are startling: Haute Couture Designer Pierre...