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Bailey, who served as Keppel Professor of Education and Administration, was recently elected president of the American Association for Higher Education. In the course of his career, Bailey received eight honorary degrees and served as vice-president of the American Council of Education, an umbrella agency which lobbies in Washington on behalf of universities...
Religious leaders and groups have played an increasingly important role in the movement. At least 70 Roman Catholic bishops (of the 368 in the U.S.) have spoken out against the arms race or in favor of a nuclear freeze, and the hierarchy's umbrella organization, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, plans to vote on a major statement about nuclear war at its annual meeting in November. Bishop Leroy Matthiesen of Amarillo, Texas, has even urged Catholics working at a nearby nuclear-weapons assembly plant to consider switching jobs, and has set up a $10,000 fund to help workers...
Greg M Weston, a spokesman for the student umbrella group which filed the Columbia petition, said yesterday that "there's a pervasive felling at [Law school] campuses across the nation that discrimination in hiring is a problem
...that seem pointless after each new shift in the political winds. During the Cultural Revolution a young librarian suspected as an "intellectual" was terrified of the rampaging Red Guards. She married the rebel leader at her high school to gain political protection in an alliance known as a "Red Umbrella" marriage. When the revolution was over, she applied for a divorce and got one. Some, like Yu Luojin, marry peasants to neutralize their upper-class origins and look better in the eyes of the state. In other cases, partners now want to end mercenary marriages, contracted simply...
...prices for food and other consumer goods could soon rise as much as 400%. Since increases in state-subsidized food prices have sparked three major labor upheavals, Communist authorities were reluctant to raise them again before the crackdown. But martial law, says Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Rakowski, now provides "an umbrella for conducting necessary economic and social reforms." By the same logic, however, an easing of repression would invite open protest. Admits Rakowski, the onetime party liberal who has become a key figure in the regime (see box): "We cannot lift martial law today or tomorrow. We would just return...