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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...transfers would "be reduced from the fiscal year 1977 total" and that such sales would be "an exceptional foreign policy implement." The guidelines also stated that the U.S. would no longer be a "first supplier to introduce [advanced weapons] into a region." Last week Carter took a more specific step: he placed an $8.6 billion ceiling for 1978 on all weapons transfers to nonallied countries. But the effect of the measure on total U.S. arms exports is questionable. It contains so many loopholes that a deft shuffling of figures will permit an actual increase in sales...
...Anwar Sadat flew to Washington last week, he left behind him a peace process that had ground very nearly to a halt. As one Egyptian official put it, "The two sides have gone as far as they can in bilateral negotiations. The time has come for the U.S. to step in and break the logjam...
...ethnic pride took place, and cultural heterogeneity emerged as the new ideal. Bilingual-education legislation, passed by Congress in 1974, declared that non-English-speaking children should be given the chance to study in their own language in order to smooth the transition into U.S. life. Going a step further, the act also set up a number of bicultural programs, so that children could reinforce, rather than shed, their primary cultural heritage. Going even further than that, neighboring Canada has been officially bilingual since 1969 ?although the separatist provincial government in Quebec has decreed French as the province...
...work will certainly not be the last word on the agency's involvement with Harvard. Other researchers with more to hide than Orne may also ask to remain unidentified, but the University should pursue a strict policy of disclosing all information it receives from the CIA. And the first step in accordance with this policy should be the release of documents relating to Harvard's involvement in the CIA MK-ULTRA projects. Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, said in October that he would release these documents. Now that Orne has been identified as one of the researchers...
...wonder, then, that man's great dream has been some day to control the weather. The first step toward control, of course, is knowledge, and scientists have been hard at work for years trying to keep track of the weather. The U.S. and other nations have created an international apparatus that maintains some 100.000 stations to check the weather round the clock in every sector of the globe and, with satellites, in a good deal of the more than 4 billion cubic miles of the atmosphere...