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People for a Decent Education, an ad hoc group supported by the Harvard chapter of the Revolutionary Student Brigade, said that the city's busing plan "does nothing to stop the discrimination and racism in the Boston school system or to give black, Latin or white kids a better education...
...special subcommittee of the Faculty Council will screen the recommendations of Guinier and other department chairmen and then submit them to the ad hoc committees that pass on all Faculty tenured appointments...
Gardner said the committee is also trying to establish regular hiring policies for the department, in line with those in the rest of the University. "Hiring has been pretty much on an ad hoc basis," he said...
...early September council meeting, an ad hoc Coalition to Combat Racism called for the resignations of Police Chief James F. Reagan, City Manager James L. Sullivan and several police officers, saying that "the issue of racism [is] of sufficient importance that there is no one so powerful or so removed that they can stand on the sidelines and watch as some citizens in this city literally go through hell...
...Castro's style of governing has changed. He still runs a police state that tolerates no dissent, but he has started to curb the whimsical use of power by institutionalizing government processes. The bureaucracy has greater authority, and instead of ad hoc economic decisions there is now a Five-Year Plan. These changes aim, in part, at improving living standards. Although Cubans now eat better, are healthier and claim the highest literacy rate in Latin America, there are still enormous shortages of all kinds of goods. Only through normalized relations with other nations of the hemisphere can Cuba obtain...