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...activist against researcher, but divided the scientific community as well Nobel laureates George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, and James D. Watson, Cabot Professor of Natural Science, openly clashed as leftist Wald opposed unbridled research while Watson who helped discover DNA two decades earlier argued the case for free rein...
...free rein given to clandestine operations ended in the mid-1970s. Hearings chaired by Frank Church, then a Democratic Senator from Idaho, revealed a panoply of dirty tricks that shocked the American public. From 1960 to 1965, according to the Church report, the CIA concocted at least eight plots, none ever carried out, to kill Cuba's Fidel Castro, as well as a bizarre scheme to dust the dictator's shoes with a powder designed to make his beard fall out. The agency was also implicated in the assassination of Dominican Republic Dictator Rafael Trujillo...
...Neuhaus, the church has a responsibility to maintain "a zone of truth which represents the full range of morally serious reflection." And the leftist thrust of the Protestant activists has not won the status of a moral truth. Says Methodist Bishops' President Crutchfield of those who want to rein in the God Box: "This is not merely a right-wing attack. These are people who believe in Christians' being involved in the life of the world. They just don't want the church to come down on the side of the Communists...
Reagan's conciliatory tone was part of a calculated effort to rein in his ideological fervor. But the restrained Reagan of Tuesday night had flowered right back into vintage Reagan by Wednesday. He traveled to Boston to show his commitment to job-training programs that help the disadvantaged and prepare the nation's labor force for the transition to high-technology industries. After visiting the Eire Pub "men's bar" in the Dorchester section of Boston (he took just one sip of his Ballantine ale) and discussing business problems with a group of executives, he uncorked...
Fortunately, there are indications that Harvard's opposition to the restriction may produce an exemption of some sort. At the least it may yield a lenient interpretation allowing the Ivies to continue their current procedures without completely mitigating an otherwise well-intentioned attempt to rein in unscrupulous alums of more high-powered athletic schools...