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...explanation for this lack of interest may be the geographical diversity of the Harvard student body. Ninety-five per cent of the students at UC Berkeley, which is a state-run university, are from California, and a large part of these are from the Berkeley area itself. Students there have an immediate stake in local politics...
...Life here is like that at the new prison they built overlooking the city," says a secretary in Karl-Marx-Stadt's state-run computer center. "From the outside it looks nice and clean, like a girls' school. But the prisoners cannot see outside." Most G.D.R. cities are within range of West German television. Says a student from Dresden: "When I came to Erfurt [a town near the border] and saw a West German program, it was like a new world opening...
Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn and 'Jimmy the Greek' Snyder will testify before a Massachusetts legislative committee Tuesday on proposals to legalize state-run gambling on sports events...
...published by Hebrew University students, suddenly lost both circulation and government financial support. The magazine had carried the comic-strip adventures of a muscular "SuperGolda"; her principal adversary was a Tel Aviv intellectual driven berserk by police corruption, religious fanaticism, militarism, pollution, inflation and social inequality. Israel's state-run television network last January introduced a show called Not Everything Is Overlooked, which mixed music and political satire. After seeing the show, Golda Meir announced in stern Victorian tones: "I am not amused." The production ended after four telecasts...
...Spence. assistant director of OGCP, cites state-preference laws in state-run universities as a major cause. "It's definitely getting tougher," she said last week. "What were finding is that it's more, and more important where you're from, not how you do. If you went to certain high schools you could have up to 70 times as good a chance of getting in to certain state medical schools...