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Under the CUE plan, students abroad would not have been required to devote half their time to their concentration. The plan also allowed students to receive credit in any course category--concentration, Core, independent work and elective--for classes taken abroad. Eliminating the minimum concentration course requirement for study abroad especially benefits science concentrators who have trouble finding foreign courses that sufficiently duplicate the Harvard offerings...
...Lenders there are likely either to cut back on making home-buying loans or attach tighter conditions to them. A typical instance: First Federal Savings & Loan Association of Chicago has just shortened the repayment period on all mortgage loans to 25 years from 29 years, and now requires a minimum 25% down payment, vs. 20% formerly...
...minimum goal is to have enough delegates to play a role in drafting the Democratic platform," says Campaign Manager Thomas Quinn. A minimum role may be all Brown can play. Since August, he has been able to raise only $250, 000. Brown forces had hoped that Kennedy would stay out of the race long enough for their man to get some "fence-sitting" money. Strapped for funds, Brown has had to delay formally declaring his candidacy. Otherwise he will lose local television exposure; as long as he is a noncandidate, stations can interview him without being forced to supply equal...
...Castro has chosen to challenge U.S. hegemony in the Caribbean by picking "targets of opportunity"-places where a minimum of aid can yield high propaganda dividends without directly confronting U.S. might. In Nicaragua, Castro did little more than supply arms and some training for the Sandinistas, who also received assistance from Latin America's remaining handful of democracies. Instead of attempting to foment revolutions, the Cuban leader has launched an aggressive campaign of diplomacy and aid that speaks to the social ills plaguing the Caribbean. Says a British Caribbean specialist: "The Cubans did not create these conditions. They were...
...President's Special Advisor on Youth Affairs. His office, hidden in the dank basement of the White House, becomes the resting place for large sums of illicit Watergate pay-off money, and when the break-in and cover-up arrests are made, he is duly escorted to a minimum-security prison in Georgia--undergoing the pains of prison minus the Watergate infamy...