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This week, that same group of University officials will gather again to assess the dilemma that Harvard and other universities are facing. If there really is "no crisis at this point"--as Robin Schmidt, vice president for government and community affairs, explained last week--then there are at least problems. The number of experiments in Harvard's medical schools and at nearby Harvard-affiliated hospitals that produce hazardous wastes are soaring. Both federal and state lawmakers have regulations on the drawing board which could exacerbate an already-tense situation. The costs of shipping and storing wastes are rapidly increasing, while...
...addition to calling for the end of racial violence and the prosecution of the assailants of Darryl Williams, the Jamaica Plain High football player shot in Friday's incident, the group will demand the resignation of James Kelly, a member of Boston Mayor Kevin H. White's administration and an opponent of busing for desegregation of the city's schools...
Eugene J. Green '80, president of the Harvard Black Students Association (BSA), attended the meeting at the invitation of members of the coalition. Green announced in this meeting that black students were seriously concerned with the racial problems of Boston. He said that a group of black students, though not officially the BSA, are circulating a petition calling for a show of solidarity with the protesters...
...role as long as possible before he descends into the political arena. And if he became an active candidate, his presidential trips might be ruled campaign excursions. Then he would have to pay for them out of his own funds. So rather than make an immediate announcement, the strategy group decided on holding a Carter rally in Washington in late October. Some 200 "Democratic heavies" would attend, White House aides said -a risky undertaking if lots of the heavies stay away...
...affidavit filed by Benedek, he had invested heavily in three separate partnership deals arranged by Straw. One was to purchase a collection of antique furniture. The second was to buy eleven paintings that included a Mary Cassatt and a Winslow Homer. The third involved a spectacular $15 million group of 31 old masters and French impressionists, including a Rembrandt, a Titian, two Renoirs and three rare Seurats. Benedek said he put up $1.5 million for a half share in the first two deals and more than $1.8 million for a smaller share in the third, both paid partly in cash...