Word: notes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days after reelection, Reagan sent an earnest note to Chernenko. A week later, surprisingly swift for the Soviet bureaucracy, the White House received a letter from Chernenko proposing the Shultz-Gromyko conference. "There had been positive signals," says a presidential adviser, "but nothing this explicit." Perle, probably the most influential arms-control critic in the Administration, had his calculations thrown off. Said he: "I'm amazed the Soviets came back to the table so soon. I hadn't expected them until spring...
...only sour note in FIST 7 was struck by the courts. Since the operation began Sept. 20, said Attorney General Smith, judges have released about half of those arrested...
...fact, the inquiry had struck a discordant note in Anglo-American relations. The criminal investigation, begun in 1983, was supposedly looking into the possibility that British Airways and other North Atlantic carriers had conspired to cut prices to drive Britain's Laker Airways out of business. Before his airline went bankrupt in 1982, Freddie Laker had offered round-trip fares between London and New York for as little...
Environmentalists are outraged by the Administration's compromise. "It's an absolute sellout," says Craig Van Note, executive vice president of a Washington-based consortium of animal-welfare groups. Thomas Garrett, the head of the U.S. delegation to the IWC's 1981 meeting, agrees. "What the Administration is actually doing is caving in to Japanese pressure," he says. "The U.S. has not won a promise from Japan to end commercial whaling and may not even have a deal to limit sperm whaling." Conservation groups have sent U.S. Secretary of Commerce Malcolm Baldrige a letter documenting Japanese whale...
Proctors too should take note. A situation or activity which fosters the belief among certain Harvard students that they are above the law seems to me to be a dangerous proposition, particularly for an institution which prides itself on producing future leaders and professionals. Does the law not pertain to sign thieves? Not even Harvard students could be so arrogant as to answer yes. Jonathan Shapiro