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Panelists at a symposium on neocolonialism and Pan-Africanism held last Saturday agreed the predominance of western economic institutions in Africa presents the greatest challenge to African unification...
...Science Center symposium, hundreds of doctors, students and activists contemplated modern Armageddon, filling in the viods of imagination with the detailed predictions of experts rather than the rhetoric of politicians...
...symposium began with an immediate analysis of the consequences of a 20-megaton nuclear assault upon Boston. The speakers detonated one devastating statistic after another: 2.2 million immediate fatalities, 80 percent of medical facilities in the Boston area totally destroyed, all frame and brick buildings within six miles levelled (so much for Widener), 17,000 injured persons for every healthy doctor. And, of course, undetermined genetic effects to haunt future generations...
...alleged devils were the targets of repeated hissing at the symposium; Edward Teller, father and continued supporter of the hydrogen bomb, and Jimmy Carter, who triggered the current jingoism and increased spending on nuclear weapons, said George B.Kistiakowsky, Lawrence Professor of Chemistry Emeritus. Echoed Bernard Lown, professor of Cardiology at the School of Public Health, "If the people knew the truth, they'd tear Washington down...
...Washington consultant has been hired to find a future for both Dodge Main and Hamtramck. A symposium of academics and government officials gathered there last summer to exchange ideas. Some suggested turning the plant into a bus factory. Others thought solar panels would correct the energy losses. Still others said to forget about the plant and transform Hamtramck into a free trade zone or a tourist attraction, like a Polish-theme park. "What Hamtramck does," said one participant, Librarian of Congress Daniel Boorstin, "will be an example for the rest of the nation." Added University of Pittsburgh Historian Samuel Hays...