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Dates: during 1970-1979
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We did not leave Viet Nam because it was a lost war; we left because it was a wrong war. To hint at anything else is a doomed attempt to hide from the shame that we should all feel in being part of such an atrocity. We should praise the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 24, 1979 | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

Brewer, who left Harvard yesterday for a new job with an Indiana diesel engine concern, is right. Last week, at least, city officials were glaring at the University, charging that two possible violations of city law uncovered last week were just further proof of Harvard arrogance.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard: The Bully On the Block? | 9/22/1979 | See Source »

Even if you overlook the fact that the proposal is just so much political baggage, however, the content of the legislation is grounds enough for dismissal. It is ironic that the Washington outsider whose 1976 campaign platform promised to pare down the overgrown federal blob has thrown his support behind...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: No More DOE's | 9/22/1979 | See Source »

IF THERE ARE PROBLEMS with federal education apparatus--and there clearly are--cutting the umbilical cord between education and its bureaucratic mother is no way to solve them. The estimated $17 million needed to establish a Department of Education would be better spent in an internal reorganization of HEW. Some...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: No More DOE's | 9/22/1979 | See Source »

Margaret Thatcher and her administration also stand to gain considerably from a peace settlement, and to lose if the London conference collapses. For one thing, Thatcher needs a foreign policy triumph to take public minds off the Irish situation, the poor state of the economy, and the harshness of cutbacks...

Author: By Brian L. Zimbler, | Title: Thatcher's Plan May Cave In | 9/20/1979 | See Source »

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