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...three months in office, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze has charmed the diplomatic world with his openness and self-effacing wit. His kindly eyes and unruly silver mane project an image that is radically different from that of his fastidious, poker-faced predecessor, Andrei Gromyko. But like his boss, Mikhail Gorbachev, Shevardnadze is a shrewd, tough-minded politician with steel beneath his smile. Some Sovietologists last summer assumed that Shevardnadze, with his minimal foreign policy experience, would serve simply as a stand-in while Gorbachev acted as his own chief diplomat. Yet Shevardnadze has shown a readiness to take charge...
...Housing: Although he will chair the Committee on House Life, Jewett will not likely have his hands full with housing issues this fall. His predecessor, John B. Fox Jr. '59, made a host of reforms in residential policy last spring, including spreading the burden of over-crowding more evenly throughout the 12 houses, making it easier for transfer students to live on campus, and reviewing the house lottery system...
Presser's immediate predecessor as Teamsters leader, Roy L. Williams, has not been as successful in eluding prosecution. Williams, who served as president of the union from 1981 to 1983, was convicted three years ago of attempting to bribe former Nevada Senator Howard Cannon in 1979 in return for the politician's help in opposing a trucking deregulation bill. Washington sources say that Presser was the Teamsters informant who first tipped the FBI to Williams' bribe offer. Last week Williams, 70, had his original prison sentence of 55 years reduced to ten years. He had pleaded for leniency because...
...things pile up and don't finish them of completely," says the recently named dean. He claims that if he could borrow one quality from his predecessor, it would be Fox's persistent efficiency. He praises the 6-ft., 9-in. dean for his "efficient management of a whole host of problems...
...past, and especially during the tenure of Spence's predecessor, Geyser University Professor Henry Rosovsky, the dean of the Faculty has traditionally run a tight ship and maintained a strong hold over all University Hall operations. And Spence, despite his well-experienced staff, contends that he will maintain strong control over the operation...