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...weighed in the union's favor. Extra-university funding sources and separate day-to-day direction of operation were viewed as key factors in the Washington board's decision. The Harvard Medical area and those Columbia research facilities granted unit status seem to share these factors in common, despite vehement denials from Harvard, and even a statement by Powers that the Columbia decision is so different from the Fuchs decision that it in fact strengthens the University's position. Fuchs, too, denies the relevance of these criteria, and instead bases his decision on the centrality of the University's personnel...
...Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who had long urged the nation's leaders to start talking back to America's detractors. He made more enemies than friends at the U.N. as he branded Uganda President Idi Amin a "racist murderer" and blamed other African governments for supporting him. Moynihan was equally vehement when he denounced the resolution equating Zionism with racism as "infamous." Soon after he threatened to resign because he did not think he was getting proper support from the State Department. Ford, who could scarcely afford more turmoil in his Administration, had to support Moynihan. Moreover, Moynihan's outspokenness...
Arab leaders were more vehement...
...changed his basic target: an increase of 5% to 7½% a year in the U.S. money supply. But the Federal Reserve must become more liberal than it has been lately in order to achieve even that modest goal. Such a policy will not mollify Burns' numerous and vehement critics, who judge a faster increase necessary to meet the needs of a growing economy. Recently, for instance, some Congressmen accused Burns of trying in effect to repeal the tax cuts legislated by Congress this year, by increasing the money supply so slowly as to cancel out their expansionary impact...
...most vehement objections to busing are raised by lower-class whites who regard blacks as an economic threat. Says Harvard Psychologist Robert Coles: "The ultimate reality is the reality of class. Having and not having is the real issue. To talk only in terms of racism is to miss the point. Lower-income whites and blacks are both competing for a very limited piece of pie." Illustrating that point, Social Worker Jerry Carey of South Boston observes: "I know that there's no way that my sons will get to Harvard, even if they have good grades, because the admissions...