Word: neutrality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Entering the final day of competition, the Crimson held a tenuous lead. More importantly, though, the Crimson had something to prove. Princeton had been the only team to defeat Harvard this season in dual meet competition. Now, on neutral turf, the Crimson sensed revenge...
...Egypt and Israel will remain mostly intact, meaning that the cuts will probably come from development aid programs involving the Third World. Some experts argue that the Reagan Administration's emphasis on military assistance to threatened pro-Western regimes, if done at the expense of aid to neutral developing nations, could eventually hurt the U.S. economically. Warns Douglas J. Bennet Jr., outgoing administrator of the Agency for International Development: "The longer we delay the development of Third World countries, the smaller the markets will be and the less successful we will be in competing...
...withstand pressures from Syria and the U.S.S.R. Sadat reasons that a government in exile formed by all Palestinians, P.L.O. members as well as Palestinians living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, might yield a stronger leadership. It would also help the Palestinians move toward a more neutral position, which would enhance their appeal and attract broader support in the world. "The moment a Palestinian provisional government is formed, we shall recognize it immediately," he said...
With Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest by Per Anger (191 pages; $8.95) is a tale of transcendental heroism set against the flames of Eastern Europe. A member of the Swedish Foreign Office in Budapest, Wallenberg continually furnished Jews with false papers and helped them flee to neutral territories, sometimes only hours before the Germans arrived. Although he saved tens of thousands, Wallenberg could not save himself. He was arrested by the Soviet troops entering Hungary and vanished into another kind of gulag. His fate is unknown today, and his monument is this sadly abbreviated biography...
...Harvard, both neutral money in the uranium industry and neutral intellectual thought about the issues of racism and energy development are non-existent. While Harvard helps to finance the energy and weapons race, students on campus are informed of benevolent divestitures and kind donations of (possibly) $70,000 for a potential Third World Center. Somehow between the paperwork, committees, and sub-committees Harvard's complicity in racist, lethal investments continues. Humanitarianism, liberalism, the intellectual process, and our collective survival are betrayed again...