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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard Opp. Points 33 27 First Downs 25 24 Yards Rushing 303 143 Yards Passing 305 407 Total Offence 608 550 Return Yardage 79 35 Passes Cp/Att/Int 20/40/1 24/44/2 Punts/Avg 14/35.0 14/34.9 Fumbles/Lost 8/4 4/4 Penalties/Yds 17/200 7/78...
Despite his own professional standing, Gofman scorns America's "professional class" of "apologists" who care "cut in for a modest share of the spoils" in return for serving the "privilege-elite" in power. He cites the Director of the Livermore Lab who conceded it was Gofman's duty to calculate that 32,000 would die if everyone were exposed to the legally allowed dose of radiation. "What" the director, asked, "makes you think that 32,000 would be too many?" Gofman marshals many such illustrations to answer those who ask how scientists could endorse nuclear technology if it is really...
Gazit believes that as long as the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) continues to commit itself to the destructio of Israel and the right to return to their pre 1948 lands, Israel cannot negotiate with them...
DIED. Ludvik Svoboda, 83, President of Czechoslovakia during the 1968 Soviet invasion; in Prague. Having fled to Poland when the Nazis occupied Czechoslovakia in 1939, Svoboda returned in 1945 as a triumphant general, alongside Red Army forces. He became Czechoslovakia's first postwar Defense Minister and secretly abetted the Communist takeover three years later. Discredited and imprisoned during the Stalinist purges of the early '50s, he was politically resurrected by Nikita Khrushchev. In 1968, the retired general was selected as a compromise presidential candidate by liberal Czech Leader Alexander Dubcek, who hoped the choice would allay Moscow...
...filled with heaps of food. And then, of course, came the endless rounds of toasts. We drank mao-tai, that deadly brew which in my view is not used for airplane fuel only because it is too readily combustible. I received graphic proof of this when Nixon on his return to Washington sought to illustrate the liquid's potency to his daughter Tricia. He poured a bottle of it into a bowl and set it afire. To his horror the fire would not go out; the bowl burst and sent flaming mao-tai across the table top. The frantic combined...