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...American Airlines' testing includes brain-wave monitoring and screening for "prediabetic" and heart problems. Pan American, Trans-World Airlines and United are similarly strict. The Mayo Clinic includes extensive psychological testing in its preemployment examinations of Northwest Airlines pilots. The pilots' contracts with the companies expressly prohibit any information gained through the airlines' medical tests from being passed...
...December 1969, for example, four students were charged with personally harassing Ernest R. May, then dean of the College. The CRR in February 1970 dismissed the charges, explaining that the Resolution did not explicitly prohibit such harrassment. The watershed March 1970 Faculty meeting then passed a vaguely worded amendment to the Resolution barring "intense personal harassment," and the CRR had its carte blanche. Interpreting the amendment arbitrarily, the Committee has since kicked several students out of school on the charge...
...other troubles, the U.F.W. finds its very existence under attack. In Arizona, Kansas and Idaho, laws have been passed that would cripple Chavez's organizing activities; they prohibit boycotts by farm workers, require farm-union elections before strikes can be called and hinder strikes at harvest time. Similar measures are included in an initiative that has been put on the California ballot by a combination of growers, shippers and the California Farm Bureau Federation. If a lettuce boycott can succeed under these circumstances, it may be that only Cesar Chavez can bring...
...turns out, they are worried about a new threat: the advent of satellite-transmitted television broadcasting. In a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim last week, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko called for an international treaty to prohibit such broadcasting from one nation to another-except by mutual consent-as "interference in the internal affairs of other states...
...Zhiguli comes to a thickly wooded area about 20 miles southwest of Moscow, he had better resist the temptation to park his car and stroll among the pines and birches. Just to remind him, a NO STOPPING line is painted along the side of the road, TRANSIT ONLY signs prohibit him from pausing in villages along the way, and NO ENTRY notices block all side streets. There is also a forbidding 10-ft. green wooden fence, set back from the road and stretching for miles. If, despite these warnings, he should pull off the shoulder even for a moment, armed...