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...recall having read the specific words that have now mushroomed into importance." That was the all too typical explanation by Attorney General Edwin Meese of a memo he received suggesting a way to get Israel to guarantee the safety of a proposed Iraqi oil pipeline. Last week Meese's lawyers released the declassified 1985 memo from E. Robert Wallach, the Attorney General's former personal attorney. What his Swiss-cheese memory had failed to retain was alarming...
...administrators, however, say the report is a vindication of Harvard's strengths, and that the criticisms are all very minor. "The results of the inquiry were gratifying," reads a memo sent to all faculty members from Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence in preparation for next week's meeting. "Our institutional strengths, thoughtfully observed by the evaluators, can be a source of pride to faculty, students, and administrators...
...preamble" (if it may be so called) of a memo sent out to the House Committees and the House offices contains this sentence as the raison d'etre for the alcohol policy's enactment: "respect for the law and by the view that students should not be deprived of learning opportunities conistent with...
...memo then makes the typical intimidating statement of what will happen when the policy fails: "There are colleges and universities that have banned alcohol altogether from their campuses...
What are the ten suspicious words? Meese could not say because the Wallach memo has been classified by Independent Counsel James McKay at the request of the State Department. While an interagency committee considers whether to make the memo public, the Los Angeles Times reported that the words convey a suggestion that campaign contributions might be presented to Israel's Labor Party. But the party's leaders have denied ever getting a contribution aimed at buying a promise that Israel would not sabotage the proposed pipeline...