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...made clear. But according to the document, the elders carefully laid out a perverse plan: "Corrupt the young generation by subversive education, dominate people through their vices, destroy family life, undermine respect for religion, encourage luxury, amuse people to prevent them from thinking. Poison the spirit by destructive theories, weaken human bodies by inoculation with microbes, foment international hatreds and prepare for universal bankruptcy and concentration of gold in the hands of the Jews." Once launched, the Protocols were to prove as virulent as they were false...
...Brock, must act to "reduce barriers to trade and reinforce growth. That requires a substantial improvement of communication and coordination of policy." Achieving that will be difficult, yet if the allies fail to do so, Hormats pointed out, "the deterioration of economic cooperation within the West will almost certainly weaken the alliance...
...supporters argue that he has broadened the Socialist International's appeal. Says Austrian Prime Minister Bruno Kreisky: "It is a question of whether it is better to be pure or to have greater numbers." Perhaps, but by drawing more strident leftists into the fold, Brandt may ultimately weaken the movement's influence. As French President François Mitterrand's failure to send a high-powered delegation to Portugal showed, Socialist parties in power tend to have little time for the empty rhetoric of those that...
...concern that many seniors have expressed is that with-holding their donations to the Gift will weaken Harvard's scholarship funds, the gift's target. But Dean of Admissions and Financial Aids L. Fred Jewett '57 has stated that University budgets are fungible enough that reducing the restricted scholarship allocation will not necessarily take a bite out of the total expenditure for scholarships...
...jobs to help pay the family mortgage in Provo, Utah. Later he put himself through Brigham Young University and the University of Washington dental school. Father of three, the strapping 6-ft. 2-in. Clark prospered in his Seattle practice and, before his heart began to weaken six years ago, honed his golf handicap to six. "I've done everything I wanted to do in life," he told Peg Miller. "Now if I can make a contribution, my life will count for something." If that meant dying on the operating table, he was prepared. Shortly before surgery, Clark reached...