Word: majority
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arab American, I would like to know why Middle East studies constitute a "Trojan horse" at Southern Cal [Nov. 13]. Nobody questions centers for Hebrew studies at our major universities, but it seems that any knowledge of Arab history or culture is "propaganda." It is in America's interest to explore both sides of the Middle East issue. Perhaps Americans are afraid of the truth...
Boris Katz first embraced his mother Khaika, and then his two brothers, Victor and Michail. The youngest, Michail Katz '80, is a mathematics major at Harvard, while Victor teaches mathematics at MIT. The two brothers and their mother have lived in Cambridge since 1975, when they were granted exit visas from the Soviet Union...
This summer the Navajo tribe won a major court victory when a Federal District Court judge in Phoenix upheld the indians' rights to tax non-indians in a suit filed by the owners of the Navajo Generating Station. The Judge side-stepped the issue of alleged violation of the leases, deferring the matter to the Secretary of the Interior. He also dismissed--without prejudice--the suit against the Sulphur Emissions Charge, because it has not yet been approved by the Secretary of the Interior...
Russ Kaphan credited the enthusiasm of the highly partisan capacity crowd that jammed the IAB fencing room with a major contribution to the team's performance. "All the clapping and yelling really helped get us psyched for those final bouts," he explained later. "It was good to see so many people showing up, especially considering that this was the first meet...
...surprise election yesterday of Masayoshi Ohira to replace Takeo Fukuda as prime minister of Japan may result in some subtle shifts in Japanese policy, but will probably not cause any major changes, Harvard Asian experts predicted yesterday...