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...Colleagues nicknamed him "Nasser's poodle," and even Nasser himself would refer to Sadat as a "black donkey." Characteristically, Sadat the survivalist concealed his feelings and watched and learned. "If you showed ambition with Nasser," he says now, "that was the end." Nearly all of the original Revolutionary Command Council were eventually ousted from office and in 1969 Nasser chose the unmenacing Sadat as his Vice President. Sadat remembers the day well; it was the one time his acting skills failed him. "Anwar's eyes popped," Nasser told his top aide. A year later Nasser was dead...
Last September the Department of Health, Education and Welfare sent a stern command to the Joseph Sears Elementary School in Chicago's posh North Shore suburb of Kenilworth (pop. 2,980). According to HEW, Sears was required to fill out a detailed Title IX questionnaire explaining how it had eliminated sex discrimination in its hiring policy, in facilities for its 575 pupils and in its curriculum. The penalty for noncompliance: an end to HEW aid for the school...
...political scientist at the University of Stuttgart: "Behind the acts of terror stands neither revolutionary theory nor strategy." The American radicals who blew up the Army Mathematics Research Center at the University of Wisconsin seven years ago had Viet Nam for a rationale. The West German terrorists, who command no support in the working class, have only a vague feeling of solidarity with the Third World and a homicidal hatred of their own country...
...elimination of so many hallowed titles has caused consternation in the civil service hierarchy. Said one grieving Ministerialsekretär of the waterways administration: "Our proud captains will become just controllers. It's like losing the command of an imperial battleship in order to conduct Vienna's No. 72 streetcar-the one that runs to the central cemetery...
...which it decides on its recommendations. By operating in a vacuum, the ACSR has gone out of its way to avoid actions that might be construed as putting pressure on the Harvard Corporation. Obviously, the committee's potential leverage with Harvard will develop only through an effort to command popular support for its recommendations...