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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...take the week's cudgelings in stride. Ten minutes after the White House was formally informed of the impending Lance indictment, Carter donned his jogging togs and ran four miles on the South Lawn. But privately he was infuriated. Said an intimate: "I've heard him use more profanity in the last four days than in the last four years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter: A Song of Woe | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...House of Commons from the Alberta district of Rocky Mountain; he won his seat and, shortly afterward, his future wife when 20-year-old Maureen McTeer volunteered to work for him. The couple married in 1973 and have a two-year-old daughter. Maureen, who continues to use her maiden name and is pursuing her own career as a lawyer, campaigned vigorously for her husband during the past election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Tory Toiler | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...seniors have donated $2600 to the Biko Fund. Petrovek said the amount in the fund would have to reach $25,000 before the admissions and financial aid committee could use the money...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Biko Fund Creator Urges Total Class Gift Boycott | 5/29/1979 | See Source »

...example, students restricted the funds to be used only as scholarship money for black South Africans, but no qualified black South Africans applied to Harvard, the University would use the money in another way, he said...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Biko Fund Creator Urges Total Class Gift Boycott | 5/29/1979 | See Source »

...hoped that the Fund would not only accomplish the two goals listed above, but would have a diversionary effect on contributions made to the larger Harvard Gift Fund in the long-run. When paired with a possible boycott of the remainder of the Fund. Harvard students could use a carrot-and-stick strategy in dealing with the Corporation and its investment policy. If the Harvard Corporation continued its investment policy with firms with subsidiaries in South Africa, seniors and alumni could support the Biko Fund and boycott the remainder of the Gift Fund. If the Harvard Corporation adopted a more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Biko Fund | 5/29/1979 | See Source »

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