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Brinkmanship finally produced a compromise that all sides felt they could live with. A new agency, the Municipal Assistance Corporation ("Big Mac"), was created to restore the city's credit and to monitor its budget and borrowing practices. Because five of its voting members are appointed by the Governor...
More threatening to the new regime is the South's economy. Saigon is short of food and fuel; trade and commerce have contracted severely because of the prolonged bank holiday, and hundreds of thousands of former government bureaucrats and soldiers are without jobs. While Communist officials have been vowing...
Healing Wounds. Wilson, however, has reportedly decided not to dismiss Benn from his Cabinet; to do so would only aggravate the party wounds that Wilson now hopes to heal. But to restore confidence in his government's ability to check inflation, Wilson will probably shift Benn-whose proposals to...
So far, Garrity's plan for magnet schools has eased some opposition to busing, although many teachers doubt that enough time remains to recruit students or adopt special programs. John Doherty, former president of the Boston Teachers Union, supports magnets but fears that "the magnetism won't be...
In any case, Riesman writes that from the time of the Lowell administration until the student protests, of the 1960s Harvard took a steady course leading to the victory of democratic meritocracy here. He goes on to detail the rise of the student--and to a lesser extent faculty--antagonism...