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President Horner and Paul A. Freund, Loeb University Professor Emeritus, last weekend received special awards from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in recognition of their work in defense of civil liberties. Freund has been associated with the ACLU's Massachusetts chapter for more than a decade. Horner has conducted several studies related to civil liberties, including two on working women. Robert Palmer, a Polaroid employee who helped develop that company's affirmative action program, also received an award at the presentation banquet last Sunday. The awards, established after the death last August of ACLU founder Roger N. Baldwin '04, will be presented every year.

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Laurence H. Tribe '62, professor of Law, was picked last week by the National Organization for Women to head a legal team that will appeal a lower court ruling that allows states to rescind their votes in favor of the Equal Rights Amendment and finds unconstitutional the congressional extension of the dead-line for ratification of the proposed amendment. In a legal matter closer to home, Tribe will represent Grendel's Den, a Cambridge restaurant, before the Supreme Court in the final step of the restaurant's ten-year battle to obtain a liquor license. Under a Massachusetts statute giving churches and schools the power to deny liquor licenses within 500 feet of their buildings, the Holy Cross Armenian Church, located about ten feet from Grendel's Den, has prevented the restaurant from serving liquor since 1961.

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John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, and William F. Buckley, editor of the National Review, faced off last week in a debate of the Reagan administration's economic program. The verbal battle drew a capacity crowd of 1200 to Sanders Theater, and hundreds of others had to be turned away. But for those who missed the heated and often humorous exchanges, the debate will be broadcast on Buckley's "Firing Line" television program January 17 and 25.