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Case replied to the editor's ultimatum yesterday by revealing that he intends to relinquish his position as publisher in favor of a board of publishers composed of students, faculty, administrators, and alumni, to achieve a publication reflecting the views of "Boston University as a whole...
...conditions of a planned economy, profit can and must express actual efficiency of methods of production. Many Soviet economists think that profit can be used as an index for assessing and encouraging the work of our enterprises. However, this does not mean that the Soviet state intends to relinquish its centralized planning management, which will suffer no harm from the improvement of assessment and encouragement, but on the contrary will grow stronger. Your article ignores the role of centralized planning in the Soviet economy and emphasizes profit...
...Devoir and La Presse, two Montreal dailies, were full of stories that Dupuis had taken a $10,000 payoff to help some Quebec race-track promoters get a franchise in his home district. All Pearson will say publicly is that he asked Dupuis, who loudly proclaims his innocence, "to relinquish his position." Pearson is unwilling to say anything more, despite opposition demands for a full and immediate explanation. The two splinter parties that have voted with Pearson up to now are even threatening to withdraw their support...
Because of Fear. Bliss vowed simply: "I am no miracle man-but I will work hard and do my best for you." In deciding to relinquish committee control, said Richard Nixon, Goldwater and Burch had "averted the greatest danger of a third-party movement this party has faced since 1912." Now, he added, "what we need is a second party...
Room for a Comeback. As usual, the latest crisis was a continuation of earlier intrigue. Forced to relinquish the premiership last October, Commander in Chief Khanh had never given up hope of a comeback. One of his problems was how to neutralize an old enemy, General Duong Van ("Big") Minh. Meanwhile, a group of younger second-echelon officers, inevitably known as the "Young Turks," were also spoiling for influence, and their targets were the five "Dalat generals," so nicknamed because of a period of arrest they had spent during 1964 in the mountain resort of Dalat. Released re cently...