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...industry has been battered further by recent reverses in fights with Government regulators. Last January the Nuclear Regulatory Commission withdrew its endorsement of a bench mark 1974 study by about 60 scientists, headed by Norman Rasmussen. a professor of nuclear engineering at M.I.T. The report rated the chance of a serious nuclear accident about the same as the probability of a meteor hitting a major city (one in a million). An opposing group of scientists, led by University of California Physicist Harold Lewis, had convinced the NRC that the Rasmussen study, while not necessarily wrong, had insufficient statistical basis...
Perhaps the most profound development, in the view of many specialists, is that the Middle East alignment has been altered. Says Harvard Professor of Government Nadav Safran: "The whole chessboard has been changed by the move of one of the major pieces on that board-Egypt." This move significantly reduces the chances of yet another war in the region. Explains American University President Joseph Sisco, who was the State Department's chief Middle East adviser under Henry Kissinger: "Without Egyptian participation, war is simply not a viable Arab option at this point. The treaty thus deepens the irreversibility...
...Michael Spence, professor of Economics and chairman of the ASCR, admitted at the Faculty meeting before spring break that initiating shareholder resolutions can be an effective way to pressure corporations to withdraw from South Africa. But the ACSR shrinks from even this tame action. Instead, Harvard will adopt a reactive stance with regard to shareholder resolutions, voting on those introduced by others, but refusing to initiate its own. Tuesday, the ACSR voted to support a resolution calling on the Timkin Corporation to withdraw from South Africa because it had not provided the University with enough information to judge the company...
Neal I. Koblitz '69, assistant professor of Mathematics and a member of the committee, said yesterday Holcombe "set a precedent for non-academic members of the Harvard community standing up for their rights...
...Classes were very small," Samuel Y. Edgerton, a professor of art history who crossed picket lines, said yesterday. Edgerton added he opposes the strike because it "only hurts the students." About one-third of his students attended his classes, he said...