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...University of Hamburg. While still a student, he joined the S.P.D., partly because his schoolteacher father had been a lifelong member. A successful stint as a whiz-kid interior minister in the Hamburg local government at 31 earned him national recognition. In his first try in 1953 he was elected to the Bundestag. In 1969, after two years as S.P.D. Bundestag floor leader, he entered Brandt's national Cabinet as Defense Minister. By the time Brandt began to lose his political authority Schmidt was West Germany's internationally regarded Finance Minister and the Chancellor's increasingly powerful standin. "When occasionally...
Divestment remains a muddled issue. Even U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Andrew Young is not in favor of American companies withdrawing from South Africa, and he believes that they should use their leverage to encourage reforms. Student demonstrators and sympathetic trustees, though, see the issue as moral rather than practical or monetary. When Yale's Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility recently recommended that the college sell $900,000 of stock in the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. (which lends money to the South African government), the committee's statement put the case with remarkable candor: "We recognize that divestiture...
ENGAGED. Marie Osmond, 19, distaff half of ABC-TV's toothily wholesome Donny and Marie duo; and Jeff Crayton, 23, a college student and actor; in Orem, Utah...
Just this week, the House Rules committee granted H.R. 13778 passage to the House floor, where many predict easy passage. "If it comes up on the floor tomorrow, it would pass," Joel Packer, legislative director of the United States Student Association, said last week. With the approval of both houses--some predict the conference committee's work may take less than a day--the government will have adopted Cabinet department number...
...tenets of Bok's philosophy of education in his belief in an almost sacred split between the state and its schools. In Bok's words, a growing body of federal regulations are "beginning to creep very close to those key academic functions which really matter--the size of the student body, the composition of the faculty, etc." Bok says he believes that the Department of Education would provide a "good vantage point" for increasing governmental encroachment in educational policy, even in private institutions. Rep. Erlenborn notes that the "tenacles of the federal government are everywhere." Erlenborn believes establishing a Department...