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Princeton rules required outsiders wishing to conduct activities on campus to obtain a student or faculty sponsor and permission from the administration, J. Anderson Brown Jr., Princeton's dean of student affairs, said yesterday. He said the policy resulted in the exclusion of most outsiders...
That ordinance required developers to obtain a permit from the city's Rent Control Board before they removed property from the rental housing market for conversion to condominiums or institutional use, or demolished housing stock...
...criticized back then for his manipulation of publicity and his liberal granting of immunity to obtain testimony in order to convict. Usually, the big-name politicians accused of committing offenses like bribery were not those let off the hook. But Hartley fails to include comments from people critical of Thompson's practices. Instead, he describes Thompson's philosophy on immunity: "one conviction is better than none...
...Administration quickly found itself with some unofficial support. Acting on its own, the International Longshoremen's Association declared a boycott in ports from Maine to Texas on all cargo to or from the U.S.S.R., leaving Moscow with no way to obtain the 3.4 million metric tons* of U.S. corn that is exempt from Carter's embargo. The corn is part of the 6 million to 8 million tons that the U.S. had promised to sell to the U.S.S.R. each year under a long-term agreement signed by both governments in 1975; at least an additional 4 million to 6 million...
...gloomy forecast, moved last week to bring a resolution calling for economic sanctions against Iran to a Security Council vote. The American proposal calls on U.N. members to halt all exports to Iran, except food and medicine. In addition, it would curb the Iranians' ability to obtain new foreign loans or convert their dollars into other Western currencies...