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Pentagon planners grudgingly accept the fact that each January congressional liberals routinely lop $3.5 billion or so off their requested budget, and the liberals regularly grumble that the military goes on buying weapons as rapidly as it had planned anyway. This year, however, the Defense Department has run up against a far more merciless budget slicer that is really forcing cutbacks in weapons procurement: the savage bite of inflation...
Joan Keenan, co-master of North House, said yesterday there is room for cutbacks to be made, "but it is wrong to lop off one thing or another without having a sense of direction as to where you're going." Keenan said she feels priorities must be set before changes are made...
...budget by roughly 5%, or about $2.7 million. The slash was made necessary largely by a decline in enrollments, which have dropped from 23,500 in 1970 to 19,300 this fall. Claiming that it had already cut other costs to the bone, the administration ordered department chairmen to lop heads. Less than two weeks after the order, letters went out to 64 faculty members, including 28 with tenure, and 40 administrative staffers, ending their employment as of next June. Hardest hit was the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, which lost about one-third of its faculty...
...Crimson began its Florida tour by defeating Embry Riddle by the lop-sided scores of 19-0, 8-1, and 14-0, and continued its winning ways on April 2 downing Bethune Cookman twice...
...Chinese have scheduled their own disarmament speech this week, but they have already upstaged themselves. On the remote Lop Nor proving grounds in Sinkiang region, Chinese technicians detonated their first atomic explosion in more than a year. It was a small bomb, as such things go-the equivalent of 20,000 tons of TNT. That is almost exactly the size of the one that demolished Hiroshima...