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This week, in the first of two installments, TIME presents excerpts from Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament, a second volume of memoirs that will be published in June by Little, Brown & Co. Like its predecessor, Khrushchev Remembers, the new book is based on tapes dictated by the late Soviet leader during the years before his death in 1971 and is a historical document of enormous value. The tapes were translated and edited by Strobe Talbott, who has served as TIME correspondent in Eastern Europe. In the introduction to The Last Testament, Diplomatic Editor and former Moscow Bureau Chief Jerrold...
...foreign policy. Most of his efforts were focused on the area most vital to France-Europe. Like De Gaulle, he envisaged a unified Europe composed of sovereign nations that would be strong enough to resist becoming dependent on either the Soviet Union or the U.S. More pragmatic than his predecessor, Pompidou agreed to let Britain join the Common Market (De Gaulle had twice vetoed the proposal). Pompidou also sponsored European summit meetings and even let some French military units participate occasionally in NATO maneuvers...
...that the Strike wasn't the herald of revolution some people thought it at the time. Derek Bok's administration differs from its discredited predecessor because Bok is willing to make procedural compromises to keep controversy under wraps, not because its commitment to democracy or its independence of purpose is much greater...
Meanwhile, students continued to bring political protest into the operations of the University, and as a result official student-Faculty relations deteriorated. On March 25, 150 students stormed into a closed meeting of the Student-Faculty Advisory Committee, a now-defunct group that was the predecessor of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life, where President Pusey talked about keeping ROTC on campus. Some liberal Faculty members at the meeting asked the protesters to leave, just as other Faculty liberals at the Paine Hall sit-in had done...
...move to disperse the enormous sphere of power and influence built up by Bennett and his predecessor Paul C. Cabot '32, also of State Street, began last spring when Putnam was chosen to succeed Bennett and State Street and Harvard concluded it was about time to change portfolio managers...