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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prime Minister's first bold move was a 16-day amnesty offer to Triad hoodlums who wanted to go straight. If they would confess past misdeeds, their testimony would not be used against them as evidence; the police would make every effort to protect them from predictable Triad reprisals; most important of all, they would not be subject to the sweeping new powers that Lee's government was giving the police, which in effect deprive all known criminals of habeas corpus. Confessions from suspicious crooks were few at first, but under constant radio and press warnings to "give...
...combination of the inherent difficulties in teaching economics in a liberal arts college plus the almost total neglect of the undergraduate program in past years has resulted in the precipitous decline in concentrators. The hope of halting that decline lies at the bottom of the Department's plans to re-design the undergraduate program, which are now under...
...leads to the proposal for a new type course to replace the far-flung surveys. They would probe smaller areas, but penetrate deeper. Based on the combined desire to attract more students, and the premise that the goal is a more intelligent understanding of the public issues of the past and present, the courses would be designed around the topical approach. Examples would be courses on the corporation, on the economic impact of government activity, the present course on the Soviet Union, a half-year course on underdeveloped countries. In discussing this approach, Dunlop stressed that these would...
...group of 25 will perform in Russian, as it did when it travelled to the Soviet Union during the past two summers. After the performance, members will discuss their adventures behind the Iron Curtain...
...number of undergraduates taking intensive Chinese and Japanese language courses has more than doubled in the past two years, Edwin O. Reischauer, Director of the Center for East Asian Studies, disclosed yesterday...