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...University of Michigan, where he is working on a Ph.D. after earning his M.A. at the University of New Mexico. Also an able economizer, Weiss saves most of his $1,500 pay to help finance his research trips. This week he leaves on his second expedition. Headed for a four-month stint in tiny Indian villages in Colombia and Nicaragua, he is taking a spectrographic kit, which he designed to measure the energy that foods produce. His concern is "human ecology": how communities obtain and use their food. Making no apologies for his work's lack of popular relevance...
...smaller newsstands near the Square closed Monday afternoon after losing a four-month battle with City officials and newspaper competitors...
...centralized wage negotiations designed to keep the government's role to a minimum. The current dispute developed a month ago, when the 110,000-member Central Organization of University Graduates (SACO) and the 20,000-member Central Organization of Civil Servants (SR) began a series of strikes after four-month wage negotiations broke down. The impasse developed from the unions' demands for pay boosts of between...
...Jarring's discussions with Israel, Egypt and Jordan resumed last week after a four-month break, angry Arabs protested that Jarring had indeed been hijacked-by the Israelis. Since Egypt and Jordan refuse to deal directly with Israel, Jarring planned to confer with representatives of each government in his 38th-floor office in Manhattan's U.N. building. But much of the week was consumed by his 11,344-mile round-trip flight to Israel. With the Middle East cease-fire due to expire Feb. 5, Jarring hopes to make enough progress so that both sides will agree...
...particularly shocking in the context of other recent court decisions in connection with Harvard: two ex-students slapped with nine-month prison terms which they are presently serving for assault and battery on Dean Watson during the April 1969 seizure of University Hall; a third ex-student given a four-month sentence for the same offense; and six more students receiving one to three year probationary terms for "disturbing the peace" by posting anti-war notices around Harvard last Fall. But what the trial of Cheyney Ryan has renewed with telling force is the notion that it is difficult...