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...Reagan policy planners. Iran was a backward nation, the leader of which had a voracious appetite for arms and a noted aversion to civil rights for his people. While the Shah greedily collected all the gadgetry of death that we would sell him, he left Iran's social needs unmet and crushed all those who urged him to do otherwise. Those gadgets meant little indeed when the people of Iran rose up to defeat the Shah; we would be better off urging the Saudi princes to devote their resources to eliminating the need for social revolt...
...spring to investigate the possibility of a campus Third World center, recommended the establishment of a "foundation" to improve race relations at Harvard. The nine-member student-faculty committee's report represents a step in the right direction; it constitutes the first official acknowledgement that minority students have needs unmet by existing institutions. But the final proposal was clearly struck in compromise, intended to appease the students who called for a Third World center without conjuring the specters of separatism so many whites fear. The report implies a peculiar defeatism. In referring to Third World centers at other schools...
...committee's deliberations, conducted over the last six months, was a process of paradoxes. Once the group determined that minority students have legitimate needs unmet by existing institutions, the logistical problem became sticky: how to forward a proposal satisfying those who originally called for a Third World center without disaffecting those who opposed the idea of a center altogether...
...GOMES COMMITTEE REPORT, released last week, recommended the establishment of a "foundation" to improve race relations at Harvard. It signifies an important departure, constituting the first official acknowledgement that minority students here have legitimate needs unmet by existing institutions...
...some "perceive," it is only because Harvard admits a consciusly small number of minorities. The Gomes report skirts the issue of minority admissions, so vital to increasing cooperation, understanding and consciousness. In this regard, we stop just short of labeling the report a sham. While it recognizes that legitimate, unmet needs exist, it refuses to be accountable for meeting those needs...