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...appointment of William A. Graham Jr. is expected to receive rubber-stamp approval from Harvard's seven-man governing Corporation tomorrow...
...course being set by the interim government, which is dominated by longtime Duvalier loyalists. Lieut. General Henry Namphy, the presiding member of the National Council of Government, moved swiftly to defuse the tide of criticism. He summarily abolished the National Assembly, a body that had served largely to rubber-stamp Duvalier policies. Namphy also disbanded the uniformed branch of the despised Duvalier secret police corps, the Tonton Macoutes...
Under the University's rules, acts of the Corporation are theoretically subject to ratification by the 30-member Board of Overseers, members of which are elected to six-year terms by alumni. In reality, the largely ceremonial Overseers gather only a few times a year and virtually rubber-stamp what the Corporation does...
...reality, the Overseers gather only a few times a years and virtually rubber-stamp what the Corporation decides. The Overseers maintain their influence through a host of special "visiting committees." boards of experts and alumni which help shape the long term direction of individual Harvard departments...
...Members Geidar Aliyev, 61, and Vitali Vorotnikov, 59, Gorbachev was an Andropov protege. His standing as the probable front runner appeared to get a powerful endorsement last month: the official Communist Party daily, Pravda, listed him as one of four candidates to represent Moscow districts in elections for the rubber-stamp Supreme Soviet, or parliament, of the Russian Republic scheduled for Feb. 24. The other three candidates: Chernenko, Soviet Premier Nikolai Tikhonov, and Politburo Member and Moscow Party Chief Viktor Grishin...