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...Committee on Educational Policy. The Faculty was able to introduce an abundance of new Gen Ed courses dealing with the American political power structure and energy development without changing the overall structure or the philosophy of undergraduate education. And when the political commitment of the students began to weaken, Gen Ed courses became more specialized, often dealing with obscure topics like Inner Asian history, or else became means of circumventing the spirit, if not the letter, of Gen Ed requirements. In a sense, the radicals of the '60s fought liberal arts education only to win a victory for specialized academia...
...latter option is essential if King Hussein is to be enticed into the talks-a move that would weaken the thrust of criticism from Arab rejectionists that Sadat is bargaining only for himself. But Hussein faces a problem in joining the negotiations if the political talks are resumed in Jerusalem. To other Arabs it may appear that the King has tacitly recognized Israeli sovereignty over the predominantly Arab old city, which was controlled...
...Moscow decided to enter the conflict so strongly and publicly in support of the shaky Ethiopian regime is not clear. The Soviets have a history of miscalculation on the Horn: following the overthrow of Haile Selassie in 1974, Moscow saw a chance to weaken U.S. influence in the area and for some reason thought it could curry favor with its new friends in Addis Ababa without antagonizing Somalia's President, Mohamed Siad Barre, who had been the Kremlin's closest ally in northeast Africa. But angered by Moscow's growing involvement with Ethiopia, a traditional Somali enemy...
...against friendship in times of peace, but only a fool surrenders his weapons. Moral protest is our only weapon short of building takeovers, and to weaken it by giving our sanction to a CRR that remains essentially unjust is to invite more building takeovers in the next...
What the rightists, and some moderates, fear most is the prospect of a victorious coalition of the left bringing communists into the governing majority for the first time in more than 30 years. They hold that such an event would lead to instability in Europe, weaken NATO and bolster Communist parties in other nations, particularly Italy and Spain. More important, they dread implementation of the Common Program of the Left, a 1972 plan for sweeping political and economic changes in France, including nationalizations of hundreds of companies. "Those nationalizations would destroy our economy," a conservative businessman in Brittany explained last...