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...Procter & Gamble to knuckle under to a campaign of demagoguery, innuendo and selective threat by the Rev. Donald Wildmon's Coalition for Better Television [June 29] is an act of cowardice. As long as they withhold their sponsorship from shows that I prefer, I shall clean myself and my household with homemade soap...
...frontiers of freedom everywhere. These include private persuasion, public condemnation and trade restrictions. In some cases we must provide economic or military aid to a besieged ally whose human rights record is not blameless. At the same time we should encourage that ally to correct its injustices. To withhold vital aid in the name of human rights and thereby help pave the way for a far more repressive regime would be a tragedy...
...Yearbook threat to withhold the Register, which quickly became overshadowed in a dispute over the content of last year's Yearbook, was met with promise from some administrators that they would try to publish their own Register. Those plans now have been canceled
...rights activism at Harvard will culminate at today's Commencement exercises, where class marshals will distribute 10,000 letters asking alumni to withhold contributions from the College, because the Faculty Council refused this spring to adopt a policy of non-discrimination on the basis of sexual preference. Protests of discrimination against gays steadily gained momentum during the year, from charges that University administrators were unfairly restricting GSA's rights to publicize its activities on posters and in student registration packets to the demands by gay students that the 1981 yearbook staff publicly apologize for describing Adams House as a "haven...
...proposal also included recommendations to increase the number of teaching fellows and to withhold first-year grades from the Law Review, which currently uses grades in its membership selection...