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...administrators involved with the first junior faculty survey since 1968 predicted yesterday that the upbeat findings will probably not prompt any major reforms...
...Harvard students notified the Cambridge city police, who soon arrived and administered justice. The two youths, no older than the Harvard students, were thrown against a concrete wall, frisked, slapped around by the police, and thrown in the back of a police car. Bystanders thanked the police for their prompt response, the police thanked the bystanders for their vigilance, and the two criminals were whisked away. The Harvard students then returned to their party, secure in their property...
AMID THE GIUTTONY Thanksgiving can often prompt sincere reflection and thankfulness for both the material and spiritual means of wellbeing. So it was more than appropriate when several political leaders sacrificed their personal holidays to protest on behalf of an oppressed people who have neither...
...controls on Black political activity, resulting in the jailing--and in some cases death of ever greater numbers of Blacks there. At the same time, Reagan has not so much as tinkered with its policy of "constructive engagement" toward South Africa a policy--a policy that seeks to prompt liberalization in that country by cooperative, rather than confrontational measures. To date that approach has gone hand with increased racial violence and a constitution granting limited representation to Indians and "Colored" while continuing to exclude Blacks from political participation...
Last week, members of both unions suggested returning to work with the same mid-January deadline, claiming the threat of a renewed walkout by both locals would likely prompt a university compromise offer...