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...Harvard coordinator for the independent campaign of Rep. John B. Anderson (R-III.) said yesterday that onethird of his ranks are former Kennedy partisans who refused to support Carter after his nomination in July...
Under pressure from the UN and the Carter Administration, Videla accounted for onethird of the 15,000 Desaparecidos last year. But it generally does not assume responsibility for the unidentified, mutilated corpses washed up on the banks of the Plata River, or for the unmarked mass graves found outside the capitol...
...current system, which admits about onethird of the class under the Early Action Program in December, uses the same criteria for early and regular admissions...
...leasing as much as 10 million acres annually. Though the continental shelf is still largely unexplored, estimates of the oil to be found there range from 40 billion to 140 billion bbl. That is a lot of new fuel for a nation that consumes 6 billion bbl. a year, onethird of which is now being imported at extortionate prices...
This money will be eagerly snapped up: only about onethird of U.S. lower schools now have libraries. Boston's 55,000 public-elementary-school pupils have no library at all, nor do some 100 elementary schools in Philadelphia. Says U.S. Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel: "A school without a library is a crippled school...