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...heart of student objections was a fundamental challenge to Harvard's budgetary priorities and the absence of student input into financial and educational policies that shape the educational community. Student spokesmen on the Commission had called for a larger financial commitment to graduate student aid--either a shift of funds away from other programs or a dip into the endowment--and a revision of the Kraus plan to redress student grievances...
...Administration and Faculty dodged student charges of inequity and selfishness in the Kraus plan by shifting most responsibility for the financial squeeze to the Federal government's cutbacks. The strategy enabled administrative spokesmen to ignore the question of Harvard's internal financing policy, a question the Union tried specifically to address, but which proved to be forbidden territory as the dispute evolved...
...week's end there was no clear-cut evidence that Constantine had any knowledge of the attempt to overthrow the junta, which government spokesmen initially brushed off as an "operetta" involving "a handful" of men, including two retired admirals. But shortly afterward, 32 senior naval officers were arrested and presumably will be tried on charges of treason. Then 31 other navymen, led by the commander of the destroyer Velos, mutinied and were granted asylum at the port of Fiumicino in Italy. Then the government admitted that the "operetta" had been a serious attempt at revolution...
According to junta spokesmen, the plot called for "as many as possible" of the Greek navy's ten destroyers and seven submarines to rendezvous at the Aegean island of Syros. From there, an ultimatum would be issued to the junta in Athens: either restore democracy or face a blockade of Greece's two principal ports. Piraeus and Salonika...
Died. Mikhail D. Millionshchikov, 60, physicist and vice president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences; reportedly of cancer; in Moscow. One of Russia's leading scientific spokesmen, Millionshchikov signaled a major shift in his country's policy when, in a surprise statement at a 1970 U.S. news conference, he became the first major Soviet official to propose cooperation with the U.S. in the exploration of space...