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Residents opposing construction of the proposed Radcliffe athletic facility on Observatory Hill filed a petition with the city of Cambridge last week requesting a one year moratorium on building in the area...
Harvard is "very concerned" about the moratorium, Donald C. Moulton, assistant vice-president for community affairs said yesterday. He declined further comment saying that he has not yet read the petition, although he has requested a copy...
...Angeles, once in the vanguard of public hedonism, has imposed a temporary moratorium on new sex movie theaters, pornographic bookstores and massage parlors. Under the revised zoning rules, which were modeled on a Detroit ordinance that has been copied in a number of other cities, no such business may open within 1,000 feet of a similar business or within 500 feet of a residential area, school, church or park...
Egypt still owes the Soviet Union $3 billion for military goods and $4.5 billion for other kinds of aid. Last week President Anwar Sadat announced that he was imposing a ten-year moratorium on the military-debt payments. That in itself was scarcely news. Piqued at Soviet refusal to resupply his army after the 1973 war, Sadat has not been making payments on those Soviet military obligations anyhow. So why the announcement...
...controversy over recombinant DNA began in 1974 when scientists working in the field initiated a self-imposed moratorium on their research after they discovered they were working with potentially hazardous material. Since that time, review committees at the NIH have established the national guidelines to permit the kind of research which scientists hope will bring cures for cancer and for solving nutritional problems. Owing to the vastness of the field, however, the expectations are unlimited...