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Some kind of turbulence had seemed imminent ever since French students fathomed the implications of an almost impenetrable, 68-article scheme for restructuring French education, proposed last September by Education Minister Alain Savary. The plan threatens, for example, to curtail subjects like art restoration and comparative Literature that are not...
Jan Meriwether, a student spokesman for the group, said that one of the amendments yet to be worked out is a provision that would limit the absolute veto power the president currently holds over tenure decisions
Charles Stark Draper Laboratories, Cambridge's largest nuclear weapons parts manufacturer with more than $116 million in contracts annually, has staunchly opposed the referendum drive and is one of the first firms to question the measure's constitutionality. Joseph F. O'Connor, vice president for administration at Draper, said last...
Congress last December voted to bar any U.S. efforts to overthrow the Nicaraguan government. But several observers have said recently that the U.S. may have violated that provision. In his speech. Reagan did not deny the allegations, and declared that the United States "shall not--and will not--protect the...
Broadwell said his group is working quietly to reintroduce a gay nondiscrimination clause before the Faculty, a provision that was voted down in spring 1981. That proposal may be presented to the Faculty next year, he said, adding that a tenured professor--whom he refused to identify--is "interested" in...