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...voting rights of Cambridge students hardly qualifies him as an impartial observer. In fact, well over 1,000 non-native students registered in Cambridge during 1975. Turnout in Ward 6, Precinct 3, a majority of whose voters is composed of Harvard undergraduates, jumped 150 over 1973, one of the largest increases in the city. The preliminary returns indicate that student turnout on election day was, if anything, slightly higher than that citywide...
Chief M.G. Buthelezi, leader of one of the largest of the South African "homelands," last night told a Kirkland House audience of about 100, that "apartheid is one of the most violent and wicked systems ever developed to keep others in oppression...
...shambles. Only about 100 doctors are left in a nation twice the size of France with a population of 6 million people. The economy of what had been the second richest nation in black Africa (after Nigeria) is in ruins. In 1974 Angola was the world's fourth largest coffee producer (earnings: $231 million) and fifth largest source of diamonds (nearly $100 million). Its iron ore mines brought in $38 million; and the vital east-west Benguela Railway, which carried most of Zambia's and Zaïre's copper ore to the sea, brought...
...million pretax loss when it abandoned the unprofitable computer business that Sarnoff had caused it to enter. At the time there was speculation that he might be forced out by dissident directors, including Industrialist Martin Seretean-who has since left the board, though he remains RCA's largest stockholder. Sarnoff has also been openly criticized for the publicity buildup that RCA gave Moffo after they married...
...commissions embody the party's influence in the day-to-day life of the class it seeks to represent. In the 1.5 million member Metal Workers' syndicate, Spain's largest, about three-quarters of the elected delegates from factories with over 50 employees are the commissions' candidates. The party has some strength in the middle-class, particularly among students. Elections to student committees at universities have recently been going to party members...