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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pentagon (in which he served as Deputy Secretary of Defense), always emphasizing practicality and erring, if at all, on the side of caution. Says Columbia History Professor Henry Graff: "Vance is a practitioner of turtle diplomacy." Graff defines this as the art of gradual but persistent pushing toward long-term goals. He adds: "Carter could learn a lot from him?...
...most closely involved with formulating U.S. policy on Africa. Before his appointment by Carter, he wrote The "Tar Baby" Option, a book cautioning against American involvement in Africa on the side of white minority governments-a warning being heeded by the Carter Administration. Lake is responsible for offering long-term policy options to Vance, and he periodically writes the Secretary's speeches...
...well as some basic anatomical genes. He claims DeVore made "unverifiable conjectures" and says "human evidence for his theories is simply nonexistent." Obviously, he also ignored the smaller portion of the talk which showed, complete with photographs of human cultures (one of which is part of a long term study by DeVore), how specific animal social behaviors were also found in man. Even by selective listening Emmerich could hardly have heard what he wanted to hear...
...problem stemmed from two sources. Radcliffe mismanaged its work-study funds over the summer, spending 60 per cent of the money on students with summer jobs, and therefore had only enough left over to provide 80 women with term-time work-study jobs. Harvard, in the meantime, received a large increase in its original work-study grant from the government in order to fund sizeable graduate school work-study programs, but the graduate schools did not claim as much money as Harvard had expected. Harvard reallocated the unused funds in February to undergraduate men, but women, as Radcliffe students, could...
...Club's objection, that the constitution fails to explicitly provide for funding, and might turn to term bill charges, remains valid...