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...Saundra M. Graham, who is now a state representative, led about 20 Cambridge residents and seniors onto the Commencement stage during a speech by University Marshal William Anderson. The community activist pulled the microphone out of Anderson's hand and told the audience why Harvard should set aside its property near Peabody Terrace for low-income housing...
Aloian, Glimp, University Marshal Richard M. Hunt, Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs John Shattuck, and Secretary to the Corporation Robert Shenton comprise the Steering Committee in charge of running the anniversary...
...Soviet forces. The 45-minute spectacle was the largest display of military might in the Soviet capital since a similar anniversary in 1965, and included military equipment never seen before in a Moscow parade: squat T-64 tanks, short-range (75 miles) SS-21 missiles and M1976 field guns. Marshal Sergei Sokolov, the Defense Minister, gave the keynote speech. "Capitalist propaganda is making strenuous efforts to falsify history . . . to belittle the role of the U.S.S.R. in the rout of the fascist invaders," he declared. "But the truth cannot be overturned. The whole world knows that it was the Soviet Union...
...charge of heavy industry, which includes defense plants, Romanov is considered a hardliner of the sort favored by the military. He was widely rumored to be a candidate for Defense Minister when the job opened up last year with the death of Dmitri Ustinov, but instead Marshal Sergei Sokolov was chosen. Should the reportedly ailing Sokolov retire or die, Romanov could become the next Defense Minister...
Kapitsa also said the Soviet leadership had come close to using nuclear arms on China. He had been at the Politburo discussion. He said that Marshal Andrei Grechko, the Defense Minister, actively advocated a plan "once and for all to get rid of the Chinese threat." Grechko, a dim-witted martinet replaced by Dimitri Ustinov in 1976, called for unrestricted use of the multimegaton bomb known in the West as the "blockbuster." The bomb would release enormous amounts of radioactive fallout, not only killing millions of Chinese but threatening Soviet citizens in the Far East and people in other countries...