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Dates: during 1970-1979
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National District Student Loans (NDSL) will fall about 26 per cent at Harvard because Congress slashed the loan program by just over 29 per cent. Gibson said the cut will not limit the number of students who receive funds because Harvard has another program available...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: A Penny for Your Thought | 3/3/1979 | See Source »

...memo prepared by Laurence H. Tribe '62, professor of Law, which the White House is distributing, lists 21 separate ones, all of which it calls "unanswerable." But the most important one--the one which raises the spectre of large-scale constitutional revision--is whether Congress or the states can limit the convention's agenda...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Invasion of the Budget Snatchers | 3/3/1979 | See Source »

...does not explicitly state who controls a convention's agenda, the convention and Congress would probably bicker. Bruce Ackerman, professor of law at Yale, takes an even stronger position in this week's New Republic, maintaining that Article V conventions must be open to any amendment and cannot be limited to a specific agenda. Ackerman says that no one has the power to limit a convention's agenda, and no one ought to; he apparently believes the drafters of the Constitution intended the convention clause for the next time Americans wanted to rewrite their governing document. His position depends almost...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Invasion of the Budget Snatchers | 3/3/1979 | See Source »

Before the club can hope to stop the petty infighting, it will have to revamp its methods of persuading Boston-area voters that the Democratic Party holds the answer to their problems. Club members would no longer be able to limit themselves to quadrennial Presidential campaigns. If the club is to stay together, its members will need to take a more active role in state and local politics. While they have preoccupied themselves with their own squabbling, a number of important issues have passed them by--from the drinking age to the construction of the Red Line, each of which...

Author: By David E. Sanger, | Title: Democrats in the State of Nature | 3/2/1979 | See Source »

...forget to explain SALT II to our allies. The prospect of a new arms limitation agreement, plus the crumbling of U.S. influence around the globe, have sparked concern in friendly capitals. President Carter had to make a public promise of support against any invasion, with arms as well as political muscle, to reassure Prime Minister Kriangsak Chamanand of Thailand two weeks ago. Carter should hold new consultations on the treaty with the NATO nations, who have been complaining that SALT II fails to limit Moscow's Eurostrategic forces," intermediate-range missiles which threaten Western Europe. We should guarantee that...

Author: By Brian L. Zimbler, | Title: Campaigning for SALT | 2/28/1979 | See Source »

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