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...Harvard College admissions, the Committee has not set target quotas for the number of blacks, or of musicians, football players, physicists or Californians to be admitted in a given year...but that awareness [of the necessity of including more than a token number of black students] does not mean that the Committee sets the minimum number of blacks or of people from west of the Mississippi who are to be admitted. It means only that in choosing among thousands of applicants who are not only 'admissible' academically but have other strong qualities, the Committee, with a number of criteria...
...Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL), College administrators and former delegates to the now-defunct Constitutional Convention are picturing at least a half-dozen scenarios of impending upheaval in student representation at Harvard this fall. Patterns of student government could be re-shaped and fixed for years. By the same token, the new Student Assembly, to be elected for the first time this fall after being evolved by the convention last year, could fizzle out and fade away. There is no consensus to be found among the crystal gazers...
Republican Governor Robert Bennett, 51, brushed aside two token primary opponents. Even Republicans, however, complain that he does not seem to be much of a Kansan with his beard and his officious manner. He is also under attack for the rise in property taxes. But his Democratic opponent, John Carlin, 38, the boyish-looking speaker of the Kansas House of Representatives, is still relatively unknown in a state where Republicans out-number Democrats three...
...dismay at the outcome of the Foreign Ministers' meeting at Leeds Castle last month. Matters worsened when Premier Menachem Begin rejected Sadat's discreet suggestion that Israel might return Saint Catherine's Monastery and El Arish, the capital of the Sinai, to Egypt as a token of good will. Begin seized on the proposal, which Sadat had never intended to be publicized, as an opportunity for public defiance. "Nobody can get anything for nothing," said Begin. Sadat, embarrassed, accused Begin of deliberately sabotaging the peace talks...
South Africa is called upon to phase down its troop presence of 15,000 to a token force of 1,500 over the next three months. These remaining forces will be withdrawn after elections, to be held later this year. At the same time, SWAPO has agreed that its armed forces will cease "all hostile acts." The agreement fails to resolve the issue of Walvis Bay, the deepwater harbor in Namibia that South Africa has been anxious to keep. Presumably, it will be the subject of further negotiations...