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Lenin had been determined to keep in check all popular stirrings, especially nationalistic ones. His successor, Joseph Stalin, perfected a system that was autocratic in the extreme and prone to territorial expansion. With the Nazis in retreat, there was a huge vacuum to be filled by the Red Army in Eastern Europe...
Green said the union negotiations weren't mentioned during the retreat at all. The retreat, an important part of the University-wide planning process now underway, went well, he said...
...deans all presented their plans, Green said, and at the end of the retreat the group discussed possibilities for academic cooperation and the need for more financial aid money, especially in the graduate schools...
Most of the work still to be done involves testing the financial feasibility of each school's plans, Green said. The administrators will retreat again in September and December to review the plans further...
Other administrators came under fire for theirhigh salaries at a union rally outside ahigh-level planning retreat June 18. [Seerelated story, page 5.] While many Harvardadministrators earn annual salaries of $100,000 ormore, the average Harvard union member earns about$23,000 a year...