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...Anthony Cortese, director of the state division of air and hazardous materials, said yesterday the state had allowed Harvard to start work on the foundation with the understanding that it could not later plead financial hardship in seeking final approval...
...games are often ones you can sleep through, even with ABC'S dazzling replays, multiple cameras and split screens, but it is hard to sleep through the chatter too. Some of this same barrage is now evident on ABC Evening News, though Arledge is quick to plead that he is still experimenting. The direction seems apparent enough. ABC, not surrendering news "responsibility" in other ways, may well end up the most revved-up, visually busy network news show. The other two networks can specialize instead, if they prefer, in coherence and proportion. But Arledge may be on to something...
...vote only antagonizes virtually all white South Africans, convinces them that the U.S. is neither serious nor reasonable and that they might as well go down fighting. For the near term, some form of qualified black suffrage should be the goal. Even most black spokesmen in South Africa plead only for a form of "sharing in the decision-making process." Would this satisfy the black nationalists elsewhere in Africa? Surely not, but that should not deter us. Serious change-a serious political role for blacks combined with genuine retreat from apartheid and genuine steps toward economic equality -would make...
...repeatedly ask Ray if he understood just what he was admitting and that he was waiving forever his right to a trial. Said Ray: "Yes, sir." The judge: "Has anything besides your sentence of 99 years in the penitentiary been promised to you to get you to plead guilty?" Ray: "No, no one has used pressure...
...concerned over any political controls on their work. At last week's Senate hearing, these fears were voiced by Norton Zinder, a molecular geneticist at Rockefeller University. Said he: "We are moving into a precedent-making area -the regulation of an area of scientific research-and I must plead that this be done with extreme care and without haste. The record of past attempts of authoritative bodies, either church or state, to control intellectual thought and work have led to some of the sorriest chapters in human history...