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Turmoil in federal AIDS policymaking is anything but new, according to Shilts. His book quotes extensively from internal memos at CDC and the Department of Health and Human Services to show that the very officials who testified before Congress that research scientists had all the money they needed to pursue the disease were privately arguing just the opposite. He quotes a May 13, 1983, note from Assistant Secretary for Health Edward Brandt seeking new funds. "It has now reached the point," the memo reads, "where important AIDS work cannot be undertaken because of the lack of available resources . . . ((which)) will...
...early years. In 1984 Neuharth shocked his top executives with a banquet made to resemble the Last Supper. Wearing a crown of thorns, Neuharth called himself the "crucified one" and warned that they would be "passed over" if costs were not cut. After Publisher Cathleen Black wrote a memo complaining that she was "publisher in title only," Neuharth scribbled obscenities on it and wrote, "Titles are what we want them to be!" Says Black today: "I'm not going to write any more memos...
Mayman could not be reached for comment butOffice for the Arts official Susan A. Zielinskisaid Schwartz and the Office are developing newplans for another display. "Because of ourconsultations with you, [Schwartz's new plans]will be able to take in consideration yourconcerns," Mayman's memo says...
...changes in the Quad construction scheduleadvanced resodding work to this week, well beforethe stripes plan could be implemented, Mayman'smemo said. As a result, Schwartz "will have torethink the project", the memo says...
...will be a memo to the next president of the United States that deals with how government and [higher education] can work together to restore this nation's leadership in the world," said Friday, whose commission was sponsored by the American Council of Education (ACE), a Washington, D.C.-based group representing nearly all of the nation's colleges and universities...