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Dates: during 1970-1979
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David Brody '52, an author and labor historian, says many of his leftist friends felt free to express themselves because they viewed Harvard as "some type of bastion" even though there was evidence then (and even more emerged later) that Harvard was not as upright about McCarthyism as its students often believed...
...preoccupied with the human rights issue. Other detractors were alarmed that the Carter Administration has almost totally ignored China-an omission that Brzezinski insists will soon be corrected. Still others wrote off the Notre Dame speech as an insubstantial sermon-PIETY STRIKES AGAIN, said Britain's conservative Daily Express, while even the liberal Guardian described the speech as shot through with "obscurities, ambiguities and plain cotton wool...
...Carter's case, the crony and the counselor are rolled into one-or rather, two. With their infectious spirits, Jordan and Powell express a frolicsome side of the President that he tends to keep under very stern control. Yet they have also been an indispensable part of the presidential quest from the beginning (Jordan first worked for Carter in 1966, Powell in 1969). Now that their man has achieved his goal, they fill several vital functions-confidants, sounding boards and "no-men"-at annual salaries of $56,000 apiece...
...wave of revulsion and anger swept The Netherlands last week after terrorists seized more than 150 hostages in an effort to force the Dutch government to accept their revolutionary demands. The hostages included 55 passengers of an express train on the Utrecht-Groningen line and-to the particular fury and fear of the nation-105 children and five primary school teachers from the village of Bovensmilde. For four emotion-filled days, the children were held inside their school. Then, because most of them seemed to have fallen victim to a stomach virus, they were unexpectedly released. But the terrorists still...
...meaning all the parties except the Communists. I would like the Labor Party in, but if [the party's leaders] refuse, then we shall say we regret it but it is their decision. We shall try to have a government in which the majority in the Knesset will express its confidence. We will not even try to form a minority government as Labor has now. We consider the Democratic Movement for Change to be a serious candidate for the coalition. But we would not accept a D.M.C. ultimatum that we hold new elections in two years to get electoral...