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...Soviet Union will still be the most important nations in the world. But they will no longer remain, as they have for most of the postwar era, virtually alone on the pinnacle of power. The possibility of war between America and the Soviet Union obviously will persist, but armed conflict is a very distant possibility in the '70s. Since the Cuban missile crisis, both nations have slowly arrived at the tacit but wary understanding that dropping the bomb would mean global disaster, and the balance of nuclear terror has proved to be exactly that-a durable and war-deterring...
...statement released late last night replied, "The University regrets the failure to find a basis for a common approach to the problems of increasing black and other minority employment on construction projects. We are convinced that our interests are the same as OBU on these questions, and will therefore persist in seeking a basis for agreement...
...unrestricted deficits persist, and increase in size, the Instruction Fund will be used up in a few years-and not for major new educational programs, but for bailing out the old ones...
...still do have a strategic reserve when many similar institutions, and other faculties at Harvard, do not. On the other hand, it does seem clear to me that the legitimate pressures that increase our expenses seem stronger than our ability to produce offsetting income, and that this condition will persist at least for the next few years. If this is correct, then the erosion of the Instruction Fund to meet unrestricted operating deficits means the erosion of flexibility to meet educational challenge in the years just ahead...
Fortunately for urban America, John V. Lindsay won't go away... at least voluntarily. Now that he has been re-elected without Republican ties, the cities are his only constituency. We can be sure that he will persist in reminding the Administration of its urban obligations. But if the Administration is unresponsive, and if New York City's fiscal problems are as acute as they seem, Lindsay's victory will only be a "thumb-in-a-bursting-dike" holding action for New York...