Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gaining Access. By this reasoning, conventional politics has become a central activity. Scale seven months ago started putting together his mayoral campaign in the city that gave birth to the Panthers. His chances are at present uncertain, but other Bay Area Panthers have already proved that they can gain access to political power. Ericka Muggins, 24, who only 19 months ago stood trial in Connecticut with Scale for murder, is today an elected member of the Berkeley community development council, the city's antipoverty agency. Other Panthers have won six of the 18 positions on the West Oakland Model...
...Administration explained yesterday why department chairman are uncertain about specific provisions of Harvard's Affirmative Action plan for hiring more minorities and women...
...bureau achieved national notoriety when 600 urban-oriented young Indians, who called their mission "the Trail of Broken Treaties," began a seven-day occupation of the building. They were protesting the bureau's inefficiency and its indifference to the pyramiding problems faced by Indians, especially in the cities. Uncertain how to handle the militants and anxious to minimize the pre-election publicity that accompanied their trashing of the building, the Administration bought its way out of the mess by giving the Indians $66,650 in "travel expenses" to clear the area...
...some of Davis' claims, as well as those of her fellow vitamin advocates, are still unproved. Doctors can find no conclusive evidence that vitamin C in large doses prevents heart disease or effectively treats cancer. Vitamin C's function as a cold cure is also uncertain. Its safety-if taken in quantities hundreds of times greater than the recommended daily requirement of about 60 mg.-is questionable. Though deficiencies of vitamin E will produce the symptoms of muscular dystrophy in rats, doctors are not yet convinced that such symptoms may exist in humans. "Vitamin E," say some physicians...
...Thirty per cent of the Harvard Class of 1972 are uncertain of their eventual vocation, a significant increase over previous years." Report on the Class...