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Representatives of several campus Third World groups linked minority struggles in the U.S. with the black nationalist movement in South Africa. They argued that Harvard should heed the demands of black nationalist leaders by supporting the withdrawal of all U.S. corporations from South Africa...
Athletic director Jack Reardon has thus far done a capable job in dealing with the various factions of Harvard's athletic community. But Reardon's job does not leave him time to accurately discern the diversity of student opinion on athletics at Harvard. Reardon should heed the events at Penn and move beyond the boundaries of his position to establish an innovative system...
Such clubhouse connections make Madigan an object of contempt among many peers, who, nonetheless, would do well to heed him. "John's criticism is first-rate," says John Calloway, news director of the local public television station, "but the question is whether his coziness destroys his credibility elsewhere...
...President has been urged not only by business but also by Democratic leaders in Congress to alter his tax plans. Al Ullman, the House Ways and Means chairman, has been pleading with Carter for a "minimalist" rather than a "maximalist" tax bill. He warned the President not to heed the arguments of White House hard-liners on reform. House Speaker Tip O'Neill was equally emphatic. The only way to get a tax bill through Congress, he insisted, was to put tax reduction ahead of reform-and separate them. If the two elements were joined, O'Neill said...
...Schlesinger suspected. Says one former AEC member: "She has a streak of Golda Meir in her." She created a separate division to set up stiffer safety standards for reactors, although the move affronted some top AEC officials who claimed it was unnecessary. She also made the AEC pay more heed to environmental-impact studies on reactors...