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...Puerto Rico's Commonwealth status has worked in the interests of the United States. An outright colony from 1902 until 1952, it then became a self-administering colony inside American tariff walls and outside American tax laws. The idea was to postpone the decision about status, provide training in democratic self-government, and turn the island from a giant sugar plantation into an industrial paradise. All these projects, particularly the last, were fairly successful until the general depression hit Puerto Rico so hard that the government was reduced to advertising it as "Profit Island, U.S.A." in the Wall Street Journal...
...magazine does not publish, the Fund will send out a small pamphlet called Forum. Forum is not a fundraising appeal, he says, but a brief, more personal profile of a member of the faculty. Five or six times each year, the Fund will also send out a "flat, outright appeal," he says. Recent alumni surveys showed that 83 per cent of the alumni felt "quite favorable" about their experience here and only 5 or 6 per cent were "really anti-Harvard." But, Peterson says, the problem remains in getting many of these potential donors to give, even a small amount...
...shrug it off as the predictable result of Israel's gradual shift away from the zealous Utopian socialism of its founders. No one, however, is ignoring the crimes and the accusations of crimes, which range from bribes of refrigerators and TV sets slipped to government workers to the outright theft of millions of dollars. Psychiatrist Hillel Klein argues that the shock of the scandals is particularly hard on a small nation like Israel, where public officials are so well known they are virtually members of the family...
...union's members cast ballots in 5,360 U.S.W. local halls in the U.S. and Canada. Officials of the U.S. Department of Labor will tally the vote in Pittsburgh and announce the winner. That falls short of Sadlowski's demand that the Government run the election outright to guard against fraud. His fear of chicanery is understandable; in 1973 he ran for the job of U.S.W. district director in Chicago and Gary and was originally declared the loser. But under Government supervision the election was rerun and Sadlowski...
Thomas Tureen, lawyer for the Penobscots and the Passamaquoddies, said last month that the Indians had more in mind when they filed the suit than to recover overdue rent. The Indians own the land outright, he contended, and he plans to sue for the acreage itself--perhaps in the form of forested land and land held by out-of-state corporations--if his clients give him the go-ahead. He estimated that the 12 million acres the Indians farmed, fished and hunted 200 years ago is worth $25 billion today...