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...There are ethics laws which govern my ability to communicate with Harvard, and severely limit it," Lindsey says...
PERHAPS the watershed event of the year--the event which showed students' ability to govern themselves--was that which unfolded at year's end, eventually before headlines nationwide. When the Undergraduate Council voted on April 24 to ask for the return of Reserve Officers Training Corps to Harvard (ROTC), it believed it was performing a service to the 90-odd undergraduate ROTC participants forced to commute to MIT for the program...
South Africa's potential energy monopoly ought to be incentive for the U.S. increase the pressure for reform on the Pretoria government. Whether by democratic reform or violent revolution, South African Blacks are certain to eventually overthrow the apartheid regime. The last thing the U.S. needs is hostile relations with the people who could govern the fusion equivalent of Saudi Arabia...
...Soviets have mounted a concerted campaign to regain respectability. While never admitting that Soviet doctors had ever been instruments of political oppression, the Kremlin has released scores of dissidents from mental wards and reformed laws that govern the rights of psychiatric patients. The Soviets have also permitted Western psychiatrists to come to the U.S.S.R. and see for themselves whether mental patients are being mistreated. Those efforts seem to be bearing fruit: last week, the executive committee of the World Psychiatric Association voted to readmit the Soviets, who had withdrawn $ from the organization in 1983 under threat of expulsion. If that...
This week the Air Transport Association, the airlines' trade group, is expected to recommend some 200 changes in federal regulations that govern maintenance. One especially significant proposal: to remove airliners from service after a specified level of wear and tear, perhaps 80,000 cycles, and rebuild the planes from the wheels up. Says A.T.A. Vice President William Jackman: "It's a first step in a series of safety measures . . . a major effort by the airlines and planemakers to assure the airworthiness of passenger aircraft." With planes falling to pieces in the sky, passengers will appreciate that...