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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proposed $500,000 laboratory would be equipped with airlocks, negative pressure, air filters and special waste disposal systems to help prevent the escape of viruses or organisms that have been injected the DNA of other organisms...

Author: By Anthony Y. Strike, | Title: Biologists Debate the Safety Of Proposed Experimental Lab | 4/15/1976 | See Source »

...that Harvard and Radcliffe track teams have co-hosted a rival school. However, Kevin Barnes '76, manager of Harvard track, and Robert "Pappy" Hunt, the Radcliffe coach, both stressed that the two meets were held jointly for the "purpose of economy." Both agreed the schedules of the two teams prevent any more joint combined meets...

Author: By Grover G. Norquist, | Title: New Radcliffe Track Team Begins Intercollegiate Season | 4/15/1976 | See Source »

Mayor Kevin H. White, whose weak and ineffective leadership has been criticized throughout the busing controversy, did issue a strong condemnation of the attack immediately after it occurred but failed to provide any indication that specific steps would be taken to prevent further recurrences, protect black citizens in Boston, and defuse the highly volatile situation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racial Violence | 4/14/1976 | See Source »

Peter W. Stanley '62, assistant professor of History, wrote that the current Philippine government is a repressive dictatorship in which Marcos is using martial law to prevent the ruling upper classes from being ousted from power...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Philippines | 4/13/1976 | See Source »

...Stickers. On the eve of the strike, Fitzsimmons invited individual employers to sign with Teamster locals interim agreements along the lines of the union's final demands. Such agreements would serve until the national master contract was signed and would prevent employers from being struck. Hundreds of trucking firms-especially small ones fearful that they could not weather a strike-signed up, and their drivers took to the roads with red stickers affixed to their windshields to prevent being mistaken for scabs. Within two days, by Fitzsimmons' estimate, one-third of the Teamsters were covered by interim agreements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Back on the Road | 4/12/1976 | See Source »

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