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...wake of student protests against thepresence of military interests at Harvard duringthe Vietnam War, the Faculty Council voted in 1969to terminate Harvard's ROTC program. TheUniversity revived the program in its current formin the mid-1970s, but the council issued anultimatum to the Pentagon two years agothreatening to cut ties again unless it stopsdiscriminating against homosexuals...
...SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: Wright, 48, first met Clinton when bothwere young liberal idealists working in her native Texas on the 1972 George McGovern campaign. In the mid-1970s she gravitated to Washington, where she ran the Women's National Education Fund, recruiting women candidates for office. After Clinton was defeated for re-election as Governor in 1980, he called upon Wright to run his comeback crusade. She accepted instantly because, as she recalls, "it was always important to me that strong political feminists have relationships with strong male politicians. And Bill Clinton has no problem with strong women...
...what might more accurately be called the conferment of LFN (least-favored-nation) -- status as a stick to make countries behave. It has never worked. Instead the use of trade as a political weapon has almost always backfired. The classic example is also the original one: in the mid-1970s, congressional conservatives passed the famous Jackson-Vanik amendment, which withheld MFN from the U.S.S.R. until the Kremlin agreed to let more Soviet Jews emigrate. Just to show who was boss, Leonid Brezhnev decreased the number of exit visas by two-thirds...
...real reason is humanitarianism. Because since the mid-1970s, U.S. presidents and members of Congress have constantly pressured Soviet regimes to allow Jews the freedom to emigrate to Israel. Because now that the Cold War has ended and the floodgates have opened, over 400,000 Soviet Jews have emigrated to Israel since September 1989. Because the unemployment rate among the new arrivals is now topping 40 percent, and only 20 percent of those who are employed are able to find work in their trained professions...
Robb was first attracted to the Knights after meeting Duke in New Orleans in the mid-1970s. But his racist roots run deep. Born in Detroit, Robb was the son of a builder and a department-store sales clerk. His family moved to Tucson while he was a teenager. There he devoured his mother's right-wing political tracts and joined the John Birch Society. After studying at a Colorado seminary under Kenneth Goff, a minister with anti-Semitic views, Robb became a Baptist minister, opened a print shop and started publishing his own right-wing tracts and pushing white...