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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...escape the mental anguish of coming from a financially comfortable family. At the same time I could strike a self-satisfying pose of identification with the underprivileged of the world. Only three things, I reasoned, justified any type of expenditure--books, records, and travel. These principles allowed me to obtain material happiness (books, records, and travel being all I really desired) while simultaneously enabling myself to ignore the fact that most people in the world go to bed hungry...
...power. Arafat visited Moscow for the seventh time and met with Soviet leaders. The Palestinians also cracked down on dissidents responsible for the skyjacking of a British Airways VC-10 whose crew and passengers were released earlier in the week. The four Arabs who had seized the plane to obtain the release of Palestinian prisoners and also embarrass the more moderate P.L.O. were detained in a Tunisian jail. P.L.O. agents swooped down elsewhere to grab 26 other dissidents. They were accused of supporting a breakaway group called "the Arab Nationalist Youth Organization for the Liberation of Palestine," which opposes...
...Faculty Council last week heard a proposal to establish a program enabling undergraduates to obtain certification for teaching in Massachusetts...
This policy will not guarantee access to confidential material, Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, said yesterday. It only urges deans of faculties and vice presidents to assist students in attempting to obtain permission from authors of confidential material to return the material to the non-confidential files. If that permission is refused, the material must remain in escrow...
...other states make it at least as easy to get help. New York places virtually no legal restrictions upon a physician's right to perform abortions on minors or to prescribe contraceptives for them, and local Planned Parenthood organizations will help obtain abortions in the state without parental consent. New Jersey allows minors of any age to obtain pregnancy care. Oregon has lowered the age of medical consent to 15; Alabama has dropped...