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...series of newsletters and high-level conversations this year, the Black group has sharply criticized the underutilization of Blacks at Harvard. They have particularly targeted the low number of Black women hired, especially in light of the departure of several prominent Black women officials and faculty over the last two years...
...same time, the group initiated a series of meetings to move forward on the issue. In conversations with President Bok and other high-level University officials, the Black activists explored the idea of a new committee to monitor Harvard's efforts to hire Black faculty and staff. Their leg-work came to fruition this spring when Bok agreed to the creation of an ad hoc group to recommend new ways to better recruit, attract and hold on to Black faculty and administrators...
Several American experts on defense and Soviet Affairs, partly led by Paul Doty, director of the Kennedy School of Government's Center for Science and International Affairs, yesterday began a four-day round of talks with high-level Soviet officials...
...trip had substantive diplomatic and economic consequences. The two nations took several practical steps to open up China to U.S. investors, including an agreement that will effectively exempt American corporations from paying U.S. income taxes on profits earned and already taxed in China. In the weeks ahead, a high-level Chinese mission will visit the U.S. to discuss trade and commerce, and Defense Minister Zhang Aiping will go to Washington to talk over military matters, including possible arms sales to the People's Republic...
...Israelis could retaliate by seizing a high-level Syrian official. But such a move, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Arens admitted, "would increase the chance for an armed clash with Syria." Other options could prove no less incendiary. "The situation is fluid and dangerous enough for the Syrians to play games," said a top-ranking Israeli defense official in Tel Aviv. "It might be a game they will regret ever playing...