(Note: The final speech at the National Conference on Behavioral Issues in Closed Institutions, held June 13-15 at Reston, Va., was delivered by Dr. Peter Steinfels, an associate for the humanities at the Institute of Society, Ethics, and the Life Sciences, Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. Steinfels, a
Reston, Va. — A delicately assembled and highly unusual summit conference adjourned recently at this woodland conference center outside Washington. It was a conference made up of adversaries whose detente was so fragile and whose trust was so slight that their last common act was
One of the greatest obstacles to national development throughout sub-Sahara Africa is illiteracy. Low levels of education prevent contact between government and the masses, the transmission of better techniques for agriculture and production, and realization of national goals and priorities. Upon independence on June 25,
Madison, Wis.–Put yourself in the situation: You are having lunch with a friend when suddenly she asks you if you would lend her $30 until she gets paid next week. You have the money but you were planning to spend it for something else. She
April, 1971 “I could speak in English, but since I’m at the American University of Beirut, I’ll speak in Arabic,” declared Leila Khaled, the intense Palestinian skyjacker. She had returned this year to the University, where she had studied pharmacy, to speak at one of
