Word: reaffirmations
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...computer was so set on having each House represent the whole college that it put some people who hadn't applied to Lowell in Lowell, even though hundreds of freshmen who did apply there were turned away. This fall, the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life decided to reaffirm students' freedom of choice. They began by eliminating master's choice, class rank, home town and field of concentration as criteria in House assignment, which was fair enough. Then they decided to add sex to the list and end Radcliffe's guaranteed one to one ratio--which probably means...
...Washington, B.C., 7,000 demonstrators marched around the Capitol demanding that abortion be outlawed. At the same time, pro-abortion forces held an interfaith service in a nearby Protestant church to reaffirm their support of women's right to end unwanted pregnancies. In downtown Houston, some 250 people, many of them wearing black armbands in memory of the aborted unborn, gathered to protest the legality of such operations. Outside St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan, a crowd demonstrated against the Roman Catholic Church's position, which holds that abortion is a sin. In a display...
...Touch. Faced with such an impasse, Kissinger and Tho could do little in their meeting last week but reaffirm their support of the Paris agreement and promise to keep in touch. "No amount of official hand wringing on the Avenue Kleber," remarked a Western diplomat in Saigon, "can affect Hanoi's attempt to hold and aggrandize, and Saigon's attempt to prove that that hold doesn't exist...
...Januray, 19 college presidents telegrammed President Nixon and new HEW secretary Casper Weinberger to "reaffirm their belief" in affirmative action as a means of eliminating discriminatory hiring patterns. Neither President Bok nor President Horner signed the telegram...
PRESIDENT NIXON refuses to believe that his administration is on trial. He obscures that reality by contending that the Watergate affair does not prove the "bankruptcy of the American system," and he insists the scandal will reaffirm the system's ability to bring out the truth...