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...system. "Why should I sacrifice what is my due?" asks one 24-year-old engineer in New Delhi. "I am a qualified engineer, and my family spent a fortune educating me. Now that I have made it, we have the right to get some of it back." Says Usha Malik, 21, a stenographer in New Delhi: "Personally. I am opposed to dowries. But unless we pay them, we will never be married. On the other side, there is pressure from our parents to get married, because if we don't, we and they will be socially ostracized...
Gordon and Malik have now been named editor and assistant editor, respectively, of "Grassroots," a weekly supplement to The Collegian which covers the university's Third World community...
...Richard S. Gordon and Abdul Malik, said that racism caused their dismissal...
Early in the week, Moynihan got into a short but sharp verbal tussle with his Russian counterpart. The admission of the P.L.O. delegation, Moynihan protested, showed a "totalitarian" disregard for due process that threatened to turn the U.N. into "an empty shell." Soviet Ambassador Yakov Malik replied: "I agree with the professor, who lectured us that totalitarianism is a terrible thing indeed. But no less terrible is gangsterism." Moynihan had the last, somewhat heavy word: "Totalitarianism is bad, gangsterism is worse, but capitulationism is the worst...
...arrangement that dates back to the Nixon Administration's first experiments with detente. Russia's Ambassador Malik promptly attacked Moynihan as "an emotional man inclined to invent the most sensational assertions." But the amendment was dropped...