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...This has dramatically reversed the situation that existed when Congress recessed for its August vacation, after holding almost a month of SALT hearings. Sentiment then had been building in favor of the treaty. The threat of crippling amendments had faded, and a number of undecided Senators seemed prepared to vote for the treaty if it were accompanied by an increase in defense spending. The Administration went along with that and was reported last week to be readying a request for an additional $4 billion in defense funds...
Afro-American Studies' birth at Harvard was indeed painful. The department, created in the aftermath of the Harvard strike of 1969, can't seem to shake that era's legacy of tension, fear and bitterness. Even the Faculty vote establishing the department sparked a major controversy, for the body had committed the exceptionally rare action of disregarding a committee recommendation...
...only 349 of 1462 registered voters. Ballot referenda on South Africa, nuclear power and the Kennedy candidacy may draw more students to the ballot box this year, but the issues are no guarantee. "Based on their past experience, many politicians in this city tend to take the student vote pretty lightly," one city council candidate said last week...
...include city administration and what Frisoli calls the "liberal clique that has allowed this city to stagnate for ten years." But condo conversion and rent control will be among the deciding factors in the campaign. "There are more tenants than landlords in this city. We have always welcomed a vote on this, and we have done our best to make it an issue," Sullivan says...
...SASC's major campaign this fall, its members emphasize, will be a canvassing drive for a city referendum calling on Cambridge to divest of its holding in banks operating in South Africa. Committee members will encourage students to register for the vote this week and will canvass on behalf of the referendum right up until the local elections in November. If Cambridge approves the referendum, it will join Berkeley, Cal., which voted last spring to divest of its holdings in banks loaning to South Africa...