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...Students, who possess their own special viewpoint about the Law School, have something valuable to contribute to the picking of a Dean and should be consulted," William C. Samuels, another third-year student, said yesterday...
...Kremlin possess power that is potentially limitless and unrestrained in its exercise; they could blow the whistle on reform any day and reimpose at least some of the tight discipline of the past. Once fully launched, however, liberalization may not be so easy to stop. The vast reorganization of the Soviet economy and the increasing force of technology are producing a second revolution in the habits and outlook of the people that the Kremlin will be hard-pressed to reverse. If that revolution continues to work its influence, arousing among Russians a longing to join the modern world and giving...
...such countries as East Germany and Hungary, Communist regimes are maintained only by the presence of Russian soldiers or the vigilance of local troops and state police. Many new or underdeveloped nations feel that, whatever lures it may possess, Communism comes with too high a price tag of coercion and terror...
...opinion. If imponderable, this climate is probably the most influential single factor in determining individual decisions in a university and thereby deciding what the university really is. Naturally the faculty plays a decisive part as well. But I wonder if the students actually realize how much influence they do possess. Some years ago a colleague remarked to me that the top students determined the character of any given department. He may well have been correct. I have yet to know a scholar who did not respond in some fashion to the flow of written and oral arguments presented by good...
...Small Price. Far more than the 60-man Senate, the newly chosen House mirrors the frailties and divisions of Vietnamese political life. Though the average age of the winning candidates is 40, few have any experience in national politics, and only about half possess any identifiable political allegiance. They range from ultraconservative nationalists to radical, non-Communist leftists, and include 16 representatives of Viet Nam's ethnic minorities, 18 former Deputies in the Assembly that wrote the new constitution, 27 military officers on leave or retired, 33 civil servants, 25 teachers and 14 militant Buddhists. Despite widespread fears that...