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...dissenting opinion, "Complete Co-education," (March 3). Mike Kinsley states that the RUS plan would "shield" women from two facts: the increased difficulty for women of being admitted into the University and the problems of living in a predominantly male social environment...
...night, gives the word to Secret Service men and military aides about the departure time for presidential trips. He is the one free spirit of the White House, the pet of secretaries and staff members, who jokes with the press in fractured English and breezes past the protective shield that rebuffs Cabinet members and Congressmen...
Harvard's resent Comprehensive Medical Plan, which provides Blue Cross-Blue Shield health insurance, is available to all members of the 'Harvard family' and their dependents...
...Because the Army counts only craft that are totally destroyed as "losses," however, the actual number of those shot down was almost certainly higher. Along the lower part of the thickly fortified Ho Chi Minh Trail, 51-cal. and 37-mm. antiaircraft guns sprayed out a murderous shield of defensive fire. "They've got stuff out there, man, we don't even know what it is," said one pilot returning from Laos to Khe Sanh. "I had things flying past me looked big as basketballs." At least one chopper company received enemy hits on every...
...Administration disagreed and turned down Moscow's plan. White House strategists contend that the Soviets are merely trying to get rid of Safeguard on the cheap. The Russians, they claim, fret that the ABM can be upgraded from a shield for individual silos into a defense for much wider areas against a Soviet counterstrike. That would enable the U.S. to launch a first strike against the Soviet Union with less fear of retaliation, upsetting the nuclear "balance of terror...