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...group is demanding that Harvard supply the area with at least 150 units of low-cost, low-rise housing to lessen the impact of Harvard's physical expansion into Riverside, which borders on Mather House and Peabody Terrace. Harvard has voiced verbal agreement with the demand and is currently seeking to acquire a site for the housing...
...group is demanding that Harvard supply the area with at least 150 units of low-cost, low-rise housing to lessen the impact of Harvard's physical expansion into Riverside, which borders on Mather House and Peabody Terrace. Harvard has voiced verbal agreement with the demand and is currently seeking to acquire a site for the housing...
...explained that the letter did not list the other side's negotiating conditions either, and anyway, that negotiations will be based on the U.N. resolution of Nov. 22, 1967, which does mention secure and recognized borders. But that did not lessen Israel's growing sense of insecurity...
...chiefs are under attack on a third front as well. Reduction of U.S. military commitments abroad is bound to alter their policymaking role and lessen their importance. Nor is a study, now being conducted by a blue-ribbon panel appointed by Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, likely to increase their significance. Surveying the operations of the entire Department of Defense, the panelists are concerned about whether the chiefs can meet almost daily on policy matters and still run their services. The panel may recommend that the chiefs be relieved of one of their jobs...
...Stalin if the present regime of Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksei Kosygin were not embarked upon a campaign of selective repression against intellectual dissidents. In the wake of arrests and harassment of outstanding writers, scientists and civil libertarians, some Russians fear, the more favorable official view of Stalin will lessen the pressures on the government to refrain from the harsh practices that so severely scarred his 27-year rule of Russia...