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...party after The Game last month by an alumnus who did not use the club's name. The students who are members of clubs are of course affiliates of the University; the clubs, however, are not. It is understandable that the halls of administration buildings were not abuzz last year with the news of the decision to cut ties to the clubs. But at least those administrators who oversee facilities for use by Harvard affiliates could have been informed of the new policy...
...explain and justify the secret U.S. sales of weapons and spare parts to Iran -- which shattered the entire foundation of the Administration's fervent public efforts to take a strong stand against terrorism -- Reagan and his aides last week seemed only to be erecting a Tower of Babel abuzz with conflicting and contradictory voices. Presidential confidants past and present got into a public squabble: former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, one of the architects of the President's Iranian policy, called the arms transfers a "mistake," and was promptly accused by Chief of Staff Donald Regan of giving "lousy advice...
...surge in foreign interest in the City has put the best local brokerage talent at a premium. According to local headhunters, the chief of sales and trading at a major investment bank now earns an average of $300,000 annually. Poaching is rife: last month City wine bars were abuzz with the news that Peregrine Moncreiffe, former head of gilt trading at London's Shearson-Lehman International, had jumped to E.F. Hutton for a salary of about $1.5 million. The newly rich brokerage crowd is helping to push up real estate prices in such flossy London neighborhoods as Kensington...
Late last week Washington's foreign policy community was abuzz with reports that Robert Brown, 51, a black businessman from North Carolina, would be named Ambassador to Pretoria. "For the first time in U.S.-South Africa relations, a black is being given serious consideration for the post," said a Washington- based South Africa specialist. The other top candidate is Richard Viets, a career diplomat and former Ambassador to Tanzania and Jordan...
...this time at a diplomatic session between the same country's newly installed left-wing dictatorship and an international human rights group. The visitors are pleading for the release of an imprisoned poet who had served the former right-wing regime as its Ambassador to Spain. The air is abuzz with debate about the competing political and aesthetic duties of the writer, the distinction between artistic merit and moral virtue and the uneasy relations between the industrial nations and the emerging Third World, where freedom and tolerance are often viewed as unaffordable luxuries...