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AFTER A SERIOUS ASSAULT near their 122 Mt. Auburn St. homes more than six months ago, the tenants began to worry about security in their own building. And as they looked around, their concern turned into outright fear for their safety...
...burden placed on undergraduates by jobs and loans which Harvard and other schools have relied on to a greater degree as outright grants dwindle is becoming heavy enough to raise the possibility of a "breaking point." Jewett said "After a certain point it may just not be worth coming here," he said...
...print actual photographs, which are readily available, of such new American weapons as the B-1 strategic bomber and the M-1 battle tank. The U.S. booklet, Soviet Military Power, used artists' renderings of satellite photographs of Soviet weapons. The Soviet effort contains many distortions and a few outright lies. The total strength of the U.S. armed forces is listed at "close to 3 million servicemen," when in fact it is 2,049,100. The Soviets say that there are more than 7,000 tactical nuclear warheads in Western Europe; there are about 6,000. It is claimed, correctly...
...well say it... This is a steady climb to richer and more famous people." Throughout the narrative, she maintains an active antipathy for Dr. Tarnower, describing him at one point as "reptillian." After finding fault with his diet and his home, among other things, Mrs. Trilling asserts outright, "The bad aesthetics of a society matter, and so do the bad aesthetics of individuals within that society; Tarnower's house matters, the pretensions of his diet book matter--style is a moral mode, a mode in morality...
...acknowledged a Soviet hand in the crisis. Schmidt has a crucial stake in good relations with the Eastern bloc. His Social Democratic party got where it is by advocating Ostpolitik, a policy that views trade with the East as the basis for an eventual normalization of relations--if not outright reunification--with East Germany. In fact, Schmidt--who was visiting East German leader Erich Honecker at the moment of the crackdown against Solidarity--did not bother to cut short their talks. He is clearly sensitive to the political clout of the European peace movement that this fall mobilized several hundred...