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...Defense Department issue is a red herring," Oettinger said last night. "Institutional participation in the Cambridge Project would not imply endorse-ment of the Defense Department, and there are other important issues involved in the Project...
...Corporation and its Administration have chosen to interpret the interruption of the normal administrative routine as an attack on scholarship and academic freedoin. Students and Faculty members should recognize the serious nature of this red herring. No classes or research were affected by demonstrations this Fall. The scattered instances of class disruption last Spring, during a voted university-wide strike, were not sanctioned by any group. Academic freedom has not been at stake during the demonstrations of 1969. Ernest R. May was not obstructed on November 19 because of his well-known views on American diplomatic history. He was obstructed...
Europeans have taken even more decisive action. Following discovery of the chemicals in their herring catch, the Swedes ordered a two-year ban on DDT, as well as the related pesticides lindane, aldrin and dieldrin. The Netherlands decided to stop using DDT. So did Denmark. West Germany limits spraying so severely that only 192 tons of the substance were used throughout the country last year. France and Britain are keeping a watch on pesticide levels within their borders. The Russians, too, are concerned, as Premier Aleksei Kosygin indicated when he offered to join with the Swedes in cleaning up what...
...years of fishing the Atlantic off Cape May, N.J., Frank Cassedy never had a bad cod season-until last winter. Known around the Cape as the Iron Man, Cassedy blames the Russian fishing fleet massed off the mid-Atlantic states for his poor catch. The Russians are fishing for herring, not cod. "But they don't throw anything back," he says. "I've never seen anything like it. It's like the Spanish Armada...
...Last week's political attack on the Peace and Freedom Party was a 'red herring' designed to destroy the rent control drive in Cambridge," said Ronald W. Stoia '68, a spokesman for the group. "I'd like to find out just what the councillors meant by their innuendoes last week," he said. His statement set off a bitter exchange with Goldberg...