Word: ramsey
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...proposals were passed without discussion following explanatory remarks by Norman F. Ramsey, Higgins Professor of Physics and chairman of the subcommittee, and Dean May. Though no summary can really do them justice, here are the election procedures the Faculty approved yesterday...
...behind much of the change is John Bartels, 36, director of the Justice Department Strike Force that has been rooting out New Jersey corruption for a year and a half. Federal Strike Forces were started in 1966 by Attorney General Ramsey Clark as a way of bringing organization to the fight against organized crime. Previously, law-enforcement agencies plying their particular powers and responsibilities-some critics say kingdoms-often worked at cross-purposes, failing to exchange information, coordinate investigations or cooperate on crimes outside their jurisdiction. When Attorney General John Mitchell decided to send a Strike Force into New Jersey...
...Ramsey had hoped, perhaps naively, to soften apartheid attitudes on his visit, but a 40-minute meeting with South African Prime Minister B.J. Vorster to discuss the subject was openly "frosty," witnesses reported. Ramsey made no secret of his own opinion. Apartheid, he told one multiracial audience, is "a hindrance to the church's task of preaching the Gospel...
...Ramsey ruled out "any form of violence" as an acceptable solution to the nation's race problems. "Christians are not called to violence, and indeed violent revolution in this country might have the most ghastly and tragic results. But time is short. When all civilized channels are closed, men become violent...
...Ramsey's warning was not likely to stir South Africa's three Dutch Reformed churches, whose theology is often cited as a justification for apartheid. But Anglicans, who form the third largest Protestant group in the nation (after the Dutch Reformed churches and Methodists), were not likely to disagree with him. The Church of the Province of South Africa, an autonomous church within the Canterbury Communion, counts some 1,000,000 members, of whom 75% are not white by official South African definition...