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Proceeding down the main street about two blocks from the African market, we were soon stopped by a group of soldiers and forced to wait outside the car for about twenty minutes. Actually, this provided us with a relatively safe viewpoint from which to watch the soldiers in action. They seemed content to let the more efficient police restore order; the streets cleared rapidly and occasional shots rang out, often fired into a trash can "for effect...
...TRADE. "We have never embargoed or opposed the sale of foodstuffs to Soviet bloc countries. Thus our current sales of wheat to the Soviet Union involved no change in basic policy. And from a traditional Yankee trading viewpoint we are not unhappy about swapping surplus foodstuffs for gold and hard currency which help to balance our international payments...
...theologians are more of a group to their enemies than to themselves. They do share a common Anglican faith, teach at the same university and contribute occasionally to the same scholarly journal, Theology. Some of them meet once a term after dinner to discuss a theological paper. But in viewpoint, they range from High Church to Low, from demythologizing radical to ethical conservative, and they quarrel with each other as much as with men who never crossed the Cam. "We have no common ground in a positive way," says one of them. "We agree negatively that the kind of questions...
...these arguments over the administration of the General Education Program accept the general viewpoint of the Redbook--that a student should take General Education courses because they teach him something he ought to know. There is, however, a justification for the Program which does not depend at all on the material taught being essential to some sort of generally educated man. Most of those who take this view are dismayed by the greater and greater specialization among undergraduates, however helpful such early specialization may be to those who wish to get an early start on their doctorates, intense specialization also...
Communists in the United States do not want the violent overthrow of the government, said Dan Rubin, editor of Communist Viewpoint, last night. He said that they seek to establish "socialism" peacefully...