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...though growing, is relatively small and weak. Its lack of large cities, sizeable racial minorities, and significant concentrations of organized labor make it rather unrepresentative of the nation as a whole. Since the results of the first primary are inevitably subjected to extensive interpretation, it would be better to tap the sentiment of a larger New England electorate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Chasing New Hampshire | 4/28/1975 | See Source »

...requested by the President. Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger argued that if the U.S. had been "less niggardly" toward South Viet Nam, Thieu would not have to give up the provinces. To support that point, White House Press Secretary Ron Nessen displayed an article from the Hanoi journal Hoc Tap that seemed to tie the current Communist offensive to a decline in the capability of Saigon's forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIET NAM: THIEU'S RISKY RETREAT | 3/31/1975 | See Source »

...raisers to plead his case. As for the Ford Foundation, the days of the big matching grants are over. New tax laws designed to curtail foundation assets have caused organizations like Ford to cut off their grants--not with a slow phase-out but an abrupt yanking of the tap...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Harvard Goes International | 3/26/1975 | See Source »

Instead, within the last few months, he has inaugurated, quietly, a program designed to tap a resource that Olney says has "never been asked" as long as Harvard has been fund-raising--American corporations dealing with the nation being studied. Olney says that Japanese industries have shown such good faith in donating to help study Japan that it "is only appropriate that we seek funds of U.S. corporations" that deal with Japan...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Harvard Goes International | 3/26/1975 | See Source »

Where the University's international fund raisers are least concerned with sources drying up is in the area of Middle Eastern Studies. The Middle East Study Center is showing no signs of financial difficulties, having already begun to tap middle eastern sources and U.S. corporations linked with Arabic nations. A.J. Meyer, professor of Middle Eastern Studies, is the University's biggest gun in the Middle East, one of the few men in the U.S. having close ties with Saudi Arabian interests. Although Peterson claims no one from the University has yet been able to develop the contracts in the Middle...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Harvard Goes International | 3/26/1975 | See Source »

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