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While student leaders demonstrated and voted 5,132 to 3,293 in favor of athletics integration, Professor Goldstein circulated a resolution of his own. It denounced the dorm regulations as designed to "degrade the dignity of the individual, subvert the academic community and interfere with the educational process." The resolution was adopted by the faculty assembly, 308-34, then put in the mail for a vote of the full faculty. In the face of both student and faculty votes, the Regents insisted that the integrationist force on the campus was a mere "vocal minority...
...favoring rapid-growth sectors. The food problem, which would arise as soon as Common-wealth produce were no longer able to enter duty-free, might possibly be mitigated if the E.E.C. allowed Britain to maintain a set of preferential tariffs for Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. But such preferences subvert the very idea of a Common Market, and France in particular will be content with Britain's joining only if it joins unequivocally...
Detailing the Plans. "Today in the island, there is not the slightest resemblance to free thought or expression in the press, radio and television," said the I.A.P.A. report, and went on to condemn Castro's attempts to subvert the free press of other nations. At this point, the New York Times, whose Cuban policy is strongly influenced by Editorial Board Member Herbert Matthews, Castro's most powerful U.S. apologist, accused the I.A.P.A. of being "driven from journalism into politics as it did its best to bring about the downfall of the Castro government . . ." Jules Dubois. chairman...
Preferring to stick to its own concept, the I.A.P.A. convention voted unanimously to condemn the "conspiracy directed by Cuba to subvert and lead to the seizure of the press of the Americas by the Communists.'' and asked the 21-nation Organization of American States "to adopt all corrective measures in its charter." The I.A.P.A. elected as its new president Andrew Heiskell, board chairman of Time...
...least, Quadros' "democratic authority" has come down just as hard on the Castroites and Communists who seek to subvert Brazil. When leftist students rioted in Recife over the university's refusal to let Che Guevara's Argentine mother, Celia. deliver a Castroite harangue, Quadros sent in the Brazilian navy and marines. Fanning out into the inflamed northeast, they raided Peasant League strongholds to round up propaganda smuggled in from Castro's Cuba, and arms. In Brazil's labor movement, once heavily Communist-infiltrated. Quadros' men are working to cut the Reds...