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...year more in earning power than a high school diploma. To compound their anger, the city's changing population patterns have surrounded some of C.U.N.Y.'s 18 campuses with increasingly resentful black neighborhoods. A year and a half ago, black students made the City College campus the focal point of their rage. They demanded that more blacks be admitted to the predominantly white enclave on a hilltop above Harlem. Weeks of turmoil, which included the burning of an auditorium, pressured President Buell Gallagher into resigning...
...months since Lon Nol and his fellow anti-Communists ousted Prince Norodom Sihanouk from power, Cambodia has become the focal point of the Indochina conflict. Many of its towns have been savaged by fighting; half the country has fallen under Communist control and much of the remainder is contested. Recently, both Lon Nol and his predecessor have spoken out about the fate of their country...
...months later, however, in the midst of the general student strike, the Rosovsky Report became-the focal point of a bitter confrontation between the administration and AAAAS...
...that they were learning nothing she could not accept. She then learned of a new tribe of radical Catholics: priests, nuns and laymen who were challenging both civil and ecclesiastical law in the name of a higher commitment to God. Divine Disobedience is a detailed, empathetic account of three focal points of this new Christianity. It is couched in the measured prose of The New Yorker, where most of the book first appeared. It is also-although the thought is never explicitly stated-the record of one person's rediscovery of her church...
...Life Lines. But Cambodia remained the war's focal point. Along Cambodia's eastern border, U.S. troops, working against a pullback deadline that expires in less than two weeks, continued to uncover rich veins of buried Communist supplies in the sanctuary areas. But the U.S. sweep seemed only to push the Communist forces deeper into Cambodia. Roving forces of Communist troops kept pressure on three provincial capitals, including Siem Reap. the gateway to Angkor, and Kompong Speu, only 24 miles southwest of the capital, Phnom-Penh. The widening Communist attacks spread Premier Lon Nol's forces...