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...President's explanation seemed a trifle disingenuous. Had he simply wanted Congress to reaffirm the policy of denying tax exemptions to discriminatory schools, he could have submitted such legislation before revoking the rule. Even that could have been interpreted as an un necessary reopening of an old controversy. Congress clearly forbade any Government sanction of, or support for, racial bias in the 1964 Civil Rights Act. In 1970 the IRS applied the policy by withholding tax breaks to discriminatory schools, and the Supreme Court later ruled that this was a correct reading of the law and the Constitution. Argues...
...boycott movement has always supported abolition of the CRR, and students should reaffirm that commitment this year. Over and above its procedural inequities, the CRR offends basic standards of political freedom; the idea that a university should have a political police is abhorrent. We hope the Faculty Council will finally recommend to the full Faculty that this sick dog of an organization at last be put out of its misery. And as for students, the CRR boycott is a proud--and effective--legacy of the years of political activism at Harvard and one that today's students should uphold...
...provide German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt with ammunition to use against Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. Brezhnev went to Bonn last week with the unambiguous goal of exploiting policy differences between West Germany--the linchpin of the U.S. NATO alliance--and the U.S. Reagan's proposal gave Schmidt the opportunity to reaffirm the common desire of the U.S. and NATO governments for serious negotiations on mid-range nuclear missiles in Europe, as well as the overall goal of detente with the East...
...SEEMED AS THOUGH each of the guests at Edward L. Bernays' 90th birthday party last Sunday was having his own personal celebration. Over 300 had come from all over America and the world, wanting both to celebrate Bernays' 9th decade and to reaffirm their friendships with him. Bernays, founder of the public relations profession and nephew of Sigmund Freud, was having hundreds of parties all at once. Adopting his favorite professorial stance, Bernays had this to say about becoming ninety: "We have a chronological age, a physiological age, a mental, societal and emotional age. To be sure, my chronological...
...still want to help the young people in that building," Vellucci said, adding that he hoped other councilors didn't take a "definitely negative attitude." Vellucci also promised to introduce a resolution within the next two weeks that would "reaffirm" council support for rent control...