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...growing number of pre-law students I know now make pretensions to helping the oppressed obtain their rights as the main reason for their following the road to the courts; rather, they say they are trying to find some certainty in an uncertain future. Nor do the swelling ranks of pre-meds talk so loudly about opening a clinic in a ghetto neighborhood and improving health care for the poor, or starting a practice in a rural community without a doctor, most would rather keep with the trend and stay in the more lucrative urban and suburban areas...
...speculation was touched off when the Press Trust of India issued a story stating that Brezhnev had temporarily "taken leave of his responsibilities." Misinterpreting this dispatch, the French news agency AFP reported that Brezhnev had actually resigned. This sent Moscow-based correspondents scurrying round the capital, vainly trying to obtain confirmation. Just as the resignation rumors were subsiding for lack of evidence, another one surfaced when an unidentified Communist diplomat in Warsaw was quoted as saying that Brezhnev had suffered a heart attack last month-just before he vanished from public view. Some Kremlin watchers favored yet another popular diagnosis...
...watching the new U.S. uneasiness with interest. Most of them have long since adopted firm, sometimes perniciously protectionist legislation. Generally their governments have near-total discretion to veto foreign investments. The Bank of England, for instance, can simply refuse an unwanted alien investor the right to obtain British currency. France requires official authorization for all investments above 1 million francs ($222,000). The only major Western nation with virtually no controls is West Germany. Even after the recent Arab purchase by Kuwaiti interests of 14% of Daimler-Benz AG, there seems to be little chance of a change...
While on one hand it would be pragmatic to obtain a national consensus to stop toppling governments, on the other hand it would be quite reckless to throw into the package a halt in legitimate intelligence gathering. It is still important to track terrorist groups and foreign military movements. One must have a very unrealistic picture of the world to deny this...
Cambridge reaction to the impact statement was mixed, with many civic leaders withholding comment until they obtain a copy of the full report or discuss it with others...