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...national convention of the Women's Equity Action League (WEAL), meeting in Washington today, also denounced the formation of the committee. Petitions calling for the committee's dissolution were circulated at the convention and will be presented next week to Logan Wilson, president of the American Council on Education and the man who appointed the committee
...Kennedys customarily allows. His book also considers the latter-day liberal's ambiguous feelings about the use of power. Once things seemed simple: you elected good guys like F.D.R. and H.S.T., shouted "All power to the President!" and depended on the Executive Branch to protect the public weal. But by the '60s, the illusion of simplicity was fading. Looking back on that period, sophisticated observers like Navasky realize how easy it is for even well-intentioned leaders to abuse executive power in some cases and abdicate it in others. Since all power is compromised, how to reduce...
...banquet tables and in chancelleries the world over, China is making a prodigious effort to reassure its concerned friends. The weekly Peking Review has told the North Vietnamese that China is "your reliable rear area," crooned to Albania that "our hearts are closely linked," promised North Korea to "share weal and woe and fight to the end to defeat the common enemy." Last week at a Peking dinner for visiting Algerian Foreign Minister Abdelaziz Bouteflika, China's Vice Premier Li Hsien-nien made an all-purpose pledge to "stand by the Algerian and other Asian, African and Latin American...
...investigations were sparked by pressure from WEAL, a Washington-based group including several Congresswomen, to enforce a 1968 government order prohibiting sex discrimination. WEAL has filed charges with the HEW against 200 colleges and universities...
However, Roberta Benjamin, president of Boston Now-which joined the Women's Equity Action League (WEAL) last November in charging that an earlier HEW report on Harvard's hiring practices was a "whitewash" of the University's treatment of women-said yesterday that "someone connected with Harvard" had told her that the University has thus far submitted two tentative plans dealing with women, both of which were rejected...