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Critics of the regime can point to recent incidents that have discredited the "liberal" image fostered by the government since the death of Franco. Last month, for example, two leading leftist organizations, the Junta Democratica and the Plata Forma, announced plans for a mass demonstration in downtown Madrid to protest the slow pace of political reforms. The regime's response was to display thousands of security forces who took up places in the Plaza de Colón, where the rally was to be held, and sealed it off from demonstrators...
...Polish poetry, is still going strong. Few of the center's members are familiar with the annual budget and its determination--it is in the vicinity of $150,000 and is worked out by Ulam and Edward Keenan '57, associate director and professor of History, then submitted for pro forma ratification to a group of Harvard senior faculty called the Executive Board...
Above all of this, exercising much more than just pro forma power, is the Corporation, a group of men who have made it in the upper circles of the proper Eastern establishment. Every week they meet and decide the course of the University. It could be a big job, except the course never changes--it's strictly a matter of keeping you on the wheel and not letting...
During the second meeting, they discussed SALT and MBFR in greater detail. Although both Ford and Brezhnev made pro forma statements that some limited progress had been achieved, the two sides adjourned without any substantive compromise...
...Corporation approves Sociology's recommendations--a pro forma move the appointments will take effect July...