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This year, anti-ROTC activism spread to otherschools, such as the University of Wisconsin andMIT. Earlier this spring, MIT Provost John M.Deutsch drafted a letter siomilar to Bok andSpence's, reflecting a growing tide of academicdiscontent with ROTC policies.Crimson File PhotoA. MICHAEL SPENCE...
Chapman's win amounted to a binding referendum on the future course of America's largest Protestant body, since the anti-Fundamentalists have now lost all hope of turning the tide. When computers had counted the ballot cards, editor Jack U. Harwell of the moderate monthly SBC Today remarked that "the holy war is over. The Fundamentalists have won. We're fixing to enter the darkest period in our history." But Chapman believes the Bible battle has been settled once and for all, and that the S.B.C. "will become an explosive force for Christ around the world...
...outcome in Algeria is certain to provide a boost for Islamic movements elsewhere. The prospect that haunts is a militant tide that topples unpopular regimes and replaces them with fundamentalist theocracies. Some leaders are beginning to recognize that the most effective safeguard against radical fundamentalism -- or any other dogmatism -- may be to garner the consent of the governed. Among the countries that have taken tentative steps toward such reforms...
...games of gin rummy. Something about riding a camel through a casino in Marrakech. Preston is a tough, lanky, 61-year-old cattleman in jeans and a straw Stetson who won this tournament in 1972, and who collected $142,000 from a preliminary event here last week, enough to tide him over. He is wealthy from poker winnings, and not lacking in aggressive self-confidence...
Fifth, after the Soviet Union, the democratic tide has swept other countries, especially those with closer ties to us. Naturally, developments took a different course in each of these countries. But they also had a common logic, with a dramatic increase in the social and political activity of citizens seeking to gain genuine control over their lives and the policies of their governments...