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Memorial Hall's grand opening as first-year dining hall and student center, originally scheduled for September 1995, has been pushed back to January 1996, according to a memo from Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles and Administrative Dean of the Faculty Nancy L. Maull...
Former presidential hopeful Paul Tsongas is circulating a memo among political leaders proposing a third national party led by someone with "moral authority" such as Colin Powell, ex-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Tsongas' memo, published today by The Boston Globe, argues for "a passionate center party that's inclusive socially and prepared to make the hard choices fiscally . . . if it is led by the right person." The key ingredient, he writes, is "the kind of moral authority the Administration clearly does not have and that the (GOP's) 'Contract with America' cannot provide, since it is poll...
...laughed about the private plane that his publisher, which is owned by Disney, was flying him around in. Known for its thriftiness, Disney hates being made to look like a typical, money-burning Hollywood studio, and a few days after Allen made his remarks, he received a curt memo from headquarters. Never brag about Disney's use of corporate jets, the company's biggest star next to Simba the Lion was told; don't even mention corporate jets and Disney in the same sentence. Now, some stars might have thrown a fit -- or got their agent...
According to another secret memo TIME has obtained, which Perry sent Lake later in the week, Perry wants to have NATO assume complete command of any evacuation of peacekeeping troops should that become necessary. It might, if Republican Majority Leader Bob Dole's plan to lift the arms embargo unilaterally and mount aggressive NATO air strikes passes Congress. NATO could be forced to attempt a "hostile extraction" of U.N. forces, and at least 10,000 American troops would be needed. In fact NATO is already speeding up its evacuation planning, and Perry asked for authority to tell the alliance...
...days after the furor died down over recent plans to issue a stamp showing the 1945 Hiroshima mushroom cloud, a newly-declassified document shows the U.S. had contingency plans to drop the atomic bomb on China in the 1950s. The National Archives today released an April 17, 1954 memo (signed by the secretary to the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Eisenhower Administration), which spells out plans to bomb China if the Chinese violated the tenuous truce that ended the Korean War. "In light of the enemy capability to launch a massive ground offensive, U.S. air support operations, including...