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...Celanese Corporation will give Yale the money over the next three years for basic research on "the structure and function of enzymes and the genes that govern their formation," Walter D. Littell '55, Yale's director of university information said yesterday...
American boys went to Vietnam to stem global communism; we preferred, understandably, a pro-West government to achieve this goal. We propped up a dubious regime in the southern part of the country and called it the Republic of South Vietnam. Our objective, then, was to legitimize this government, a difficult, perhaps impossible, task. But the hit-parade of generals and petty tyrants in Saigon possessed little popular support, no traditions of political leadership, no real boundaries and no mandate to govern from its people. We gave the Vietnamese the shadow of representative government but not the substance; as many...
...very things the Poles are striking for today-freedom to govern themselves, economic stability, sufficient food and fuel to survive-are strikingly similar to what Lenin sought when he created the structure that is now choking Poland. The circle is complete...
...support segregationism. "I am unalterably opposed to racial discrimination in any form," he said. His only intention in changing the tax regulations, he stressed, was to remove from the IRS the power to determine public policy. Said he: "Such agencies, no matter how well intentioned, cannot be allowed to govern by legislative fiat...
What Haig hopes to sign by April 26 is a declaration of principles that would govern a transition period for the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Such a goal seems all but impossible, however, considering the seriousness of the unresolved issues. Israel wants to talk about a limited form of "autonomy" for the area; Egypt seeks an agreement that would lead to the eventual creation of a Palestinian state...