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...Department of Afro-American Studies during the month of April 1969, the political turmoil and fighting surrounding the birth of the department ended. For most Faculty members it probably did. After the decisive vote to create the Department, they confidently expected that the University administration would proceed to lend it the necessary support that it needed to implement the Faculty decision. But for some Faculty members, the vote simply signalled a shift in arenas. After all, they feel, what are administrations for if not to find ways to circumvent a Faculty decision. Anyone who spent time trying...
...Hanoi has escaped extensive bomb damage. Although military targets around the city's perimeter are pounded daily, visitors report that an almost Continental charm survives in the city's center. The purr of Czech motorbikes and the chatter of lovers drinking Bulgarian wine beside Lake Hoan Kien lend color to the clean but dour city. All factories and warehouses have been relocated deep inside dense forests to the west and south of the city...
...steel. But its words are western. The same can be said for "Earlybird" whose "The eagle flies alone. He is free," is par for Eagles's songwriting. Musically, the simplicity of the bass line, the thin sound of drums, and in "Earlybird: the banjo and the faraway slide guitar, lend to a total sound that is remarkably unadorned...
...clichè expert. During the tree-climbing episodes, the camera peers up from a low angle, the sun making dainty little flares in the lens. During a confrontation in the drawing room of Pinny's Boston home, a clock ticks loudly, a desperate device intended to lend a little spine to the sponge cake theatrics. As for the unfortunate actors, they are all nonprofessionals and are likely to remain...
...chief stumbling block to such a comprehensive trade agreement has been the Soviet Union's outstanding debt (originally about $11 billion) to the U.S. for Lend-Lease aid during World War II. In last week's discussions the Soviets agreed to a still undisclosed formula for repayment. Settlement of this debt would in turn permit the Export-Import Bank to finance the export of U.S. goods to the Soviet Union. It would also enable the Nixon Administration to ask Congress to grant the Russians most-favored nation trade privileges and credits, an important prerequisite for extensive trade...