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...Kent State verdict [Sept. 8] is one more illustration of the system's refusal to redress the most legitimate grievances of its citizenry. Those who still believe that it is possible to attain fundamental justice from the agencies of a corrupt and decadent power structure have one more tragic example of the uselessness of such misguided faith. Moreover, it is now abundantly clear that white middle-class youngsters are as vulnerable to the system's excesses as are blacks, Indians, Chicanos, Puerto Ricans and poor whites...
...even alumni ineffectiveness as the Crimson editorial appears to do is simply not true. Even more serious, however, this attempt to find an easy scapegoat for the decline in minority interest in Harvard does a real disservice to our continuing efforts to identify the problems of recruiting and to redress them...
...captured SA-6 and SA-7 antiaircraft missiles that proved to be so devastating to the Israeli air force. Egypt, however, is short of spare parts, and it is probably still missing about a dozen of the 150 MIGS that the Israelis shot down. In a move to redress the balance, the Egyptians are getting 36 Mirage V fighter-bombers ordered from France by Saudi Arabia; the first three are already in Egypt...
...that racism--subtle or otherwise--thrived at Harvard during the sixties and while it is also true that many black students identified Harvard's institutional prejudices and tried to rearrange them, the whole analysis begins to break down when you start talking about the Bok administration's efforts to redress the problem. The three programs that Bok mentioned in his talk--affirmative action, minority recruitment and black studies--are clearly not cure-alls for anything and the way they have been handled here has not made them very efficient ways of even beginning to change Harvard's deeply-rooted biases...
...right now." Indeed, in parts of Central America, in ten sub-Saharan nations and in some rural areas of India, the 20-year trend of declining death rates and infant mortality is being reversed. Death rates are rising. This, according to Malthus, is nature's brutal way of redressing the balance when population exceeds food supply-if man himself does not first redress it voluntarily...