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Vice Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72, who sponsored the resolution, said that the council stands behind students in their efforts to nudge University administration into more rapid and decisive action to rebuild the Afro-Am Department...
...damage because many had been built on unstable landfills, low-rise apartment buildings still stand empty behind temporary scaffolding, awaiting new, reinforced foundations. The city's double-deck Embarcadero Freeway, which skirts the waterfront, remains closed. The board of supervisors voted narrowly to tear down the eyesore rather than rebuild it. But demolition has not yet begun because the city needs federal financing for much of the $135 million it will cost to replace the structure with a highway that runs partly underground...
...stinginess in helping newly-democratic Central and Eastern Europe (and rightly so, I believe). But your paraphrase of Mr. Dienstbier's message as a plea to the West to "send more economic aid" is entirely misleading. Czechoslovaks do not want us to pay for their transition; they want to rebuild their country themselves, and they deserve enormous credit for this commitment...
While America's power to influence the world environment has declined, it has not disappeared by any means. But to wield such influence, the first task for the U.S. is to renew and rebuild itself, to restore its economic growth and productive capacity and replenish its wealth...
This been an era of U.S. ascendance, says Henry Grunwald, former editor in chief of Time Inc., but if there is to be a Second American Century, the nation must renew and rebuild itself. Writes Grunwald: "It is unbelievable -- and unacceptable -- that the richest and most productive country in the world, which we still are, cannot find the means to exert international leadership while simultaneously improving its own society...