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Events are anxiously watched by the French, Italian and Spanish Communist parties, which profess to favor a thoroughgoing democratic pathway to power. But they can hardly claim democratic credentials unless they are unreservedly outspoken about repression in Communist countries. ("They have yet to show proof of their alleged democratic spirit," says Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky.) On the other hand, going too far in condemning Moscow and other Communist capitals could make them seem traitors to the Communist cause. Early this month, Italian Party Chief Enrico Berlinguer, addressing 3,000 workers in Milan, stressed "our criticism of certain 'authoritarian features...
...rising costs "disgust me," James S. Barlow '79, said yesterday. Barlow said he worries about next year when his younger brother enters Harvard. Paying for both students will absorb about half the family's income unless they qualify for financial aid, Barlow said...
State officials have asked restaurants not to serve water with meals unless a diner insists. They figure it takes two glasses of water to wash each glass and estimate the savings-if all the restaurants in the state comply-at 1 million gallons a day. At the Taverna Yiasou Restaurant in Marin County, Manager Beth Taylor has gone even further: she has switched to paper plates, thus conserving the water normally used for 25 loads of dishes at each lunchtime...
...oppose relative transcripts, first because it would raise the level of competition among students, which is at an all time high already. With relative transcripts, an "A" becomes meaningless unless matched by a lower grade. Thus students are discouraged from working together, from helping each other on assignments and from doing group projects. It would be to the student's best interest that his classmates do poorly. Clearly, this does not foster the kind of educational cooperation we want at our universities...
...surprising. Exactly one year before he had been kidnapped by the Korean CIA from a Tokyo hotel, and kept blind-folded and drugged until he finally came to, a prisoner in Seoul. He too is serving an eight year jail sentence, and he is likely to die in jail unless released soon, for he needs careful medical attention...