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...scientific journal for many years, was nothing short of a sensation. Parapsychologists and others who believe in the existence of such psychic phenomena as telepathy, psychokinesis and precognition were jubilant; in their view, Nature had bestowed upon them the recognition and respectability that the scientific establishment has so long withheld. Some skeptics were dismayed; they felt the mere publication of the report in Nature would lend legitimacy to many of the hotly disputed tenets of parapsychology...
...Holt amendment provides that federal funds be withheld from school systems that classify, assign or their teachers or students by ethnic standards. During debate on the amendment, Rep. Bella S. Abzug (D.--N.Y.) and others attacked the rider for not defining "school system." Without further working, the bill could be interpreted so as to make Title IX and other affirmative action programs that relate to colleges illegal, Abzug said...
...third strategy outlined by Blueprint would be to build up a stockpile of oil sufficient to carry the nation through a year during which foreign producers withheld 1 million bbl. a day of potential shipments to the U.S. The policy would cost $4.7 billion, but that would be a bargain; without it, such an embargo would take a $33 billion bite out of national production. Blueprint does not firmly recommend any of the strategies it describes; its purpose is to outline a wide range of choices...
...Michael J. Harrington '58 (D-Mass) charged yesterday at a Law School Forum that high U.S. officials withheld information from the American public on covert activities in Chile...
...though Alan Dershowitz, professor of Law and an active practicing attorney, was going to have some legal troubles of his own. A federal district court judge in New York threatened the Harvard-based civil liberties lawyer with disciplinary hearings after Dershowitz charged publicly that a U.S. attorney "deliberately" withheld evidence from the Supreme Court...