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...When I came to Harvard in 1973, the arts were too recreational," says Mayman. "It was my intention to start serious and demanding programs in the arts that focused on expert direction and instruction." Six years later, Mayman feels that she's gotten what she wanted...
...Israel engaging in so destructive a policy? Says one U.S. expert on the Middle East: "It's astonishing. The Israelis actually seem to think they are close to giving a knockout blow to the Palestine Liberation Organization. But if anything, P.L.O. morale is higher than before. Their strength has not even been touched." Since the latest wave of Israeli attacks coincided with the current diplomatic offensive of the P.L.O., some Western observers have concluded that Israel's real motive in Lebanon is a devious one: to make it impossible for P.L.O. Chief Yasser Arafat to pursue a moderate...
With the news of some kind of a meeting out, Young decided to call on Israel's U.N. Ambassador Yehuda Blum, a Czechoslovakian-born expert on international law. What Young especially wanted to accomplish, he said, was to assure the Israelis that they were wrong to feel that "there was some grand conspiracy to change our policy toward the P.L.O...
Chicago Attorney John Kennelly, 62, an air crash expert who has so far filed suits on behalf of the relatives of 22 victims in the Chicago crash, charges that the insurers traditionally stretch out the litigation to hold on for as long as possible to the large sums of money they will inevitably have to pay out. The interest on the money alone is worth millions; Kennelly argues that that interest should be added to the final award...
DIED. Bertil Ohlin, 80, Swedish politician and economist who shared, with England's James E. Meade, the 1977 Nobel Prize in Economics; in northern Sweden. At 25, the handsome, precocious Ohlin was a full professor at the University of Copenhagen and an expert in international trade. A practitioner as well as a theorist, Ohlin was Sweden's Trade Minister in a wartime coalition government (1944-45). Chief of the Liberal Party from 1944 to 1967, he waged a lifelong battle to check the growth of socialization in Sweden...