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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that expressly prohibits the use of U.S. forces in Indochina. He secretly aided factions in the Angolan civil war and, had Congress not prevented it with legislation, would have escalated American involvement. These are strange actions for a man who repeatedly extols the virtues of peace for its own sake, and takes credit for having kept America out of armed conflict...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Pathetic Lie of Jerry Ford | 10/30/1976 | See Source »

...Military Academy, in college. The book will disappoint anyone who wants to learn how Dean became the kind of man who would do almost anything to get placed on the "A-limousine list" in the White House, and gleefully watched workmen redoing his new, enlarged office just "for the sake of redecorating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Expedient Truths | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

...living. The barriers to equality which did indeed exist in the past for this group have largely vanished. That the Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare fails to recognize this change in circumstances is little reason for Harvard to extend the subscription to archaic definitions for the mere sake of bureaucratic consistency. And to insist on special considerations for a group solely because it is a distinguishable minority intimates a new brand of prejudice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Minority Status | 10/22/1976 | See Source »

...number of student members on the Placement Committee, reinforcing a feeling that the school would rather avoid student-initiated controversy that could damage its ability to rely on firms for donations. The school denies the move was anything but an effort to cut the membership for efficiency's sake--but to the students involved in the Bowman case, it is only another example of the school's willingness to avoid student input that could damage its future relationship with donors...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: A Case of Frustration | 10/20/1976 | See Source »

...clash, however, is over bread and butter. Unlike Buckley, Moynihan favors a federal takeover of welfare, passage of a national health-insurance bill and enactment of other measures necessary to help the economically distressed Northeast. He accuses Buckley of abandoning New York State's economic interests for the sake of antiquated conservative principle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Buckley v. Moynihan | 10/18/1976 | See Source »

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