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Foreclosures on farms will leave one million workers jobless, making this the most devastativng year for farmers since the Great Depression, participants in a Harvard student-sponsored Agricultural Law Symposium said yesterday...
...number of farm foreclosures will rise to 100,000 this year as a result of farmers' decreasing incomes and their subsequent inability to repay loans, said symposium organizer Harry R. Bader, a first-year law student. This crisis will cause almost half of America's 2.3 million farmers to lose their land, making 1986 "the worst year since the Great Depression," he said...
...industrial economist William F. Steel addressed the Eighth Annual World Development Conference, a two day symposium at the Kennedy School discussing the role of small scale enterprise in development. Seminars on development today will follow last night's speech...
...American Society of Law and Medicine's symposium, entitled "AIDS: A Modern `Plague'?" will focus on the medical, legal and public policy issues surrounding the disease. Yesterday's events were televised and shown at 200 hospitals nationwide...
There was some tough talk last month at a meeting in Washington of the normally staid American Association of University Professors. In an impassioned address during a daylong symposium on academic freedom, Chancellor Joseph Murphy of the City University of New York blasted a new right-wing watchdog group that he said was recruiting students "as a corps of thought police." The group, Accuracy in Academia, was founded last summer by Militant Conservative Reed Irvine as an offshoot of his flourishing (35,000 members) Accuracy in Media, which makes a business of challenging perceived liberal bias in major news organizations...