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Back in November 1969, President Nixon and Japan's Prime Minister Eisaku Sato agreed to move toward an agreement that would let Okinawa-occupied by the U.S. since 1945-revert to Japan in 1972. Nixon understood from Sato that in return the Japanese would formally consent to a limitation on the flow of synthetic textiles into the U.S. Nixon had promised in his presidential campaign to limit textile imports from Japan, so it seemed a good deal for the U.S. Moreover, Sato needed Okinawa to placate his anti-American opponents in the Diet, and the U.S. needed Sato...
Harvard will revert to its old lineups to meet Penn's threat. With defense-man Kevin Hampe apparently healthy again, Cavanagh will be free to return to center, and the lines will shape up as they were before the Dartmouth game...
...future programming to be primarily innovative? Should there be greater concentration on programs which would provide opportunities for more undergraduates during the academic year? Are the costs of summer programs more, or less, or equally justified in taking precedence over winter programs, or should the primary emphasis revert to providing outlets for undergraduates during college terms? Concurrently, there should be an extensive examination of the financial costs of the central operation, with the possibility of instituting a pattern of assessments for the project committees, as we have already indicated. Moreover, we stress the necessity of establishing consistency in categories...
Furthermore, the Big Red will have the considerable edge of playing on their own ice in Cornell's notorious snake pit, Lynah Rink. Harvard will have to revert to the early season form that took it through its first six games without a defeat if the Crimson is to overcome...
Catholic theologian Rev. Hans Kung reports that a secret Vatican document recently circulated among selected bishops would use Vatican II "letter" to revert to Vatican I "spirit," leave only the Pope with real power, make "legalisms of dogma and dogmatize law" -this last, the kind of fusion Father Cunningham and Rabbi Miller seem to be approaching with their sinful driving and tref table grapes...