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Today marks the tenth anniversary of the police raid on student demonstrators occupying University Hall--an event that triggered the historic nine-day strike of April 1969. Next week The Crimson will publish a special supplement on the strike and the lingering effects on Harvard in the past decade...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: The Rites of Spring | 4/10/1979 | See Source »

...strengthen the dollar, Zombanakis continues, governments must devise a new system, a collective responsibility that would spread the risks of financing international debts. One way would be to set up a world central bank that would issue a new reserve currency to supplement the dollar. Perhaps a revised International Monetary Fund could fill that role, in Zombanakis' view, and the IMF's Special Drawing Rights could serve as the new money. The SDKS would be backed by deposits from the countries that have large surpluses−notably Saudi Arabia, West Germany and Japan−as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive View: The Saudis and the Dollar | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

...sick public broadcasting system is more money--lots of money. In fact, the commission recommends an annual budget (by 1985) of $1.2 billion. Of this total pool, the federal government would provide $590 million, a recommended increase of over 300 per cent from 1978 funding levels. To supplement this, the commission proposes a system in which Congress would provide two dollars for every three dollars a local station gathered...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: A Little Too Scalpel Happy | 3/9/1979 | See Source »

Canada Bill Jones' Motto and Supplement. It is morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money. Supplement: A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.−Anonymous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANA: Our Beasts and Burdens | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...Brown & Williamson International, which markets Kents abroad, has cornered 90% of the Rumanian cigarette import market. The dollar shop at Bucharest's Intercontinental Hotel is piled high with cartons of Kents, a tantalizing symbol of Western opulence. Among the principal purchasers are Third World students in Rumania, who supplement their meager stipends by buying Kents and trading them for cash. Such traffic, though illegal, is tolerated by the government. After all, bribery has been part of Rumanian life since the country was under the domination of the Ottoman Empire. "We were under many foreign influences," says one bureaucrat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Butting In | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

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