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WATERGATE CONSPIRACY. Since the resignation of James F. Neal in October, curly-haired Ben-Veniste has acted as head of the task force. Self-confident to the point of being cocky, he graduated from Columbia Law School and then took an advanced degree in law at Northwestern University before becoming an Assistant U.S. Attorney in his native New York. He prosecuted several union kickback cases and also the perjury, bribery and conspiracy charges resulting in the conviction of Martin Sweig, onetime aide to former House Speaker John W. McCormack...
Cultural Gap. The few Arab scholars who are here often find their role awkward or ambiguous, and a comparison with the situation of blacks in major U.S. universities ten years ago is not outlandish. Northwestern Political Scientist Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, a Palestinian, dismisses many Arab professors here as "Uncle Ahmeds" who are treated as mere "native informants" rather than experts...
...rather crudely carved in iroko wood, the torso covered with sackcloth stitched with reddish-brown beads, the face masked in copper. But the Afo-A-Kom (literally, the Kom thing) is sacred to the approximately 30,000 people who constitute the Kom kingdom, a tribal enclave in the northwestern part of the Federal Republic of Cameroon...
...hand?" Such a solution would be welcomed by Americans, for many fear that the U.S. might have to send troops to the Middle East if the Arabs invaded Israel itself and the Israelis seemed to be losing. That would not be enough reason for a confirmed dove like Northwestern University Law Professor Robert W. Bennett, who believes that Russia would only counter such a move by sending in troops of her own. Even he admits, however: "I just hope the question remains hypothetical. Frankly, I don't know how I would react if the Israelis were really being slaughtered...
When he was told that the little cornfield on the banks of the Illinois River was strewn with old Indian arrowheads and pottery shards, Northwestern University Archaeologist Stuart Struever decided to do a little spadework, hoping to unearth an ancient Indian settlement. What he found exceeded his wildest expectations. The plot, owned by a farmer named Theodore Koster, may well hold some of the most important archaeological remains ever discovered in North America...