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SALT II, perhaps the most crucial business before the Senate, will be subjected to stern scrutiny. Democratic Whip Alan Cranston of California has put together a bipartisan group of Senators who have been meeting with Administration officials to exchange views on SALT. Cranston acknowledges that the treaty "can't be based on trust that the Soviet Union will live up to its terms. We've got to have the ability to monitor their adherence or nonadherence." SALT opponents, who estimate that they have close to 25 solid votes against the pact (34 are needed to defeat it), have...
...confided a Long intimate. "You lose the first way, then you fall back on plan B." Long decided to increase the size of his Finance Committee by adding another Democrat and Republican. But that meant reducing the size of somebody else's committee, a treacherous undertaking amid a group that so jealously guards its prerogatives. But Long had a friend in Mississippi's John Stennis, chairman of the Armed Services Committee. Sure, said Stennis. He was willing to drop a couple of members. "It's a small reduction," he acknowledged. Long then approached Byrd, who convened...
...steering committee of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) said in a statement last night that the group has "been saying all year that shareholder resolutions calling for corporate withdrawal don't work. Now the ACSR has admitted that. Will the Corporation draw the logical conclusion and divest...
Carl F. Rosen '80, a member of the undergraduate group that elected Fouquet last year and voted to boycott the ACSR this year, said yesterday that the ACSR "is so far from reality they can't speak for the Harvard community. The report highlights the need for reforms of the ACSR...
...Another group, the Visiting Overseers Committee, also provides Weissbecker with a monthly rating on the dining halls. This group has the advantage of an objective membership, none of whom attend Harvard. They are local parents of Harvard students, who eat at undergraduate dining halls several times each month and submit a report of their findings to Weissbecker. He said they, too, have not remarked on any disparities in the quality of the food among Houses, but he refused to disclose the names of the committee's members...