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Another unsettling element is the extensive leakage of the facts of the case to the press even before the targets of the probe were told they were under investigation. Says Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz: "This is not a press leak but a press hemorrhage." Former Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox believes that "little leaks are one thing. Systematically giving out information of this scale raises real worries about the sensitivity of the people engaged in the administration of justice." Burke Marshall, a Yale law professor who once served as Assistant U.S. Attorney General, complained in the New York Times...
...presence of only 12 tenured women in the Faculty "forces one to consider that there may be some element of sex discrimination in tenure decisions," Alison Dundes '81, president of RUS, said yesterday. The absence of tenured women in the History Department, when women hold 20 per cent of the PhDs in history is "peculiar," she added...
...provide Peking with a ground station for receiving signals from satellites ?the sort of high technology that is being denied to the Soviets. Further, Brown and his hosts indicated that they would hold future talks on military affairs, which signaled Washington's interest in creating an important new element in the strategic balance of power by linking U.S. and Chinese security interests. As a symbolic touch, Brown even posed in a Chinese-made T-59 tank...
...Soviet actions introduce a highly dynamic element in a very volatile area of the world. About a year ago, I described that area as "an arc of crisis." I meant by that phrase a number of countries that have different internal causes of instability but cumulatively are facing widespread regional turbulence. The Soviet Union has chosen both to exploit that turbulence and to project its power into it. This is likely to be highly destabilizing for all of the neighbors of Afghanistan. The Soviets may hope to extract some benefits from it, but they should be increasingly aware that international...
...problem is complicated by developments on the supply side--that is the second relatively "new" element. Large oil price increases--a quadrupling between 1972 and 1975 and a doubling in 1979--cause a speed-up in the Consumer Price Index that in turn tends to trigger larger wage increases; the core rate of wage-price inflation is ratcheted up to a higher level. One-shot oil price increases will tend permanently to increase the underlying rate of inflation...