Word: state
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...critical problem is that academic and media equations of Israel and the apartheid regime of South Africa, have become not only acceptable, but even quite fashionable. When in 1975, despite Western condemnation, the UN General Assembly declared Zionism "a form of racism and of racial discrimination," through an Arab State, Third World, and Soviet bloc majority coalition, Israel's very existence became a crime against international law, while ethical notables such as Libya, Iraq and Syria were still deemed "peace-loving." Moreover, through this process of UN moral inversion, Israel and South Africa could now "legitimately" be equated...
Student action comes in response to faculty and library cutbacks and a plan before the state legislature to cut $25 million from the state's higher education budget. Under the proposal, which is part of a bid to reduce a $700 million-plus overall state deficit, the Amherst campus would lose $6.4 million next year and raise students' curiculum fees by $350 next semester...
...some professors cancelled classes anyway, and many supported the strike by changing teaching plans. Some professors used class time to discuss state spending issues, took students outside to protests or moved courses to avoid crossing picket lines...
...Amherst State Rep. Stan Rosenberg said he supports the strike "as long as it produces positive political action. Student activity throughout the last month has helped focus attention on higher education...
...compared his proposal to the Marshall Plan devised by Secretary of State George C. Marshall, which provided more than $12 billion in American aid in 1948-51 to help Europe recover from...