Word: sponsored
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...them are likely to join the 3,856 Americans (including 32 women) executed since 1930. The Federal Government has carried out only one execution in ten years, now has only one pending (Nebraska Bank Robber-Murderer Duane E. Pope). Says Michigan's Senator Philip A. Hart, sponsor of a bill to abolish capital punishment for federal crimes: "The death penalty is a symbol of a dying order of vengeance...
Before approaching the Soc Rel Department, the students asked several other departments to sponsor the course, but met with unfavorable responses, one committee member said...
...Institute's own goal is to sharpen the University's awareness of such policy questions. It will sponsor Faculty research and, by a variety of other means, will attempt to acquaint other parts of the University with the intracacies of policy problems. But in this purpose, many see a distortion of the "true" role of the University. The Institute is too closely connected with "establishment" politics and policies, they say, and thereby diverts scholars from pursuing an independent line of work...
Then, on February 2, Goldberg wrote Neustadt requesting a public meeting at which he would answer questions about American foreign policy. What motivated this request remains unclear, but an understated problem of "saving face" immediately arose: how could the Institute sponsor a public meeting without abandoning the position it had held to so firmly during the McNamara visit...
...Price, dean of the Kennedy School of Government (of which the Institute is a part) came to the rescue by offering to release Goldberg for a limited period to the jurisdiction of Dean Ford, who would sponsor the meeting. The confrontation could then be held under the nominal auspices of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences--and when it was over, Goldberg would reach his original destination: the Institute...