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...Jimmy Carter wants as his new Secretary of State, not surprisingly, disagrees with his predecessor on the issue that precipitated Vance's departure -the aborted raid to rescue the hostages. "I'd be disappointed if that option had not been explored and tried if feasible," says Ed Muskie. But he adds that he does not feel "comfortable" with the military options and believes the side effects entail "pretty high risks." Though he has no exact formula as yet, the Senator from Maine would like to offer Iran some incentives to surrender the hostages-what he calls "a carrot...
...bring an orderly, disciplined mind and decades of experience as a troubleshooter to bear on the supervision of foreign policy. He knew his strengths as a manager and as a patient negotiator. He had enough self-confidence not to be bothered by the inevitable unflattering comparisons with his stellar predecessor, Henry Kissinger. Vance did not even try to compete with Kissinger as a spinner of grand designs or as a globe-trotting diplomatic superstar...
Like its Gen Ed predecessor, begun in 1945 and now enjoying a quiet dotage, the Core has suffered from bureaucratic jostling and the turf-protecting impulse that accompanies any academic institution. By the time Rosovsky had made enough compromises to get the Faculty's vote, Harvard's "revolution in education" had degenerated into an amorphous mass containing few innovations or specifics. Eight newly established Faculty sub-committees would resolve the details over the coming year. No one else need worry...
Nasser Muhammad is also a Marxist but, unlike his predecessor, apparently has a gift for compromise. In his first speech as President, he praised the friendship treaty with Moscow and vowed: "Our party will continue to struggle for Lenin's principles." At the same time, Nasser Muhammad began patching up quarrels with his neighbors. Within a day of taking office, he sent a special envoy to Saudi Arabia, whose approval is essential for unification with North Yemen. That goal may be closer than ever. Replying to a friendly overture from Nasser Muhammad, North Yemen's strongman, Lieut. Colonel...
...unquestioned. In his programming he has been criticized for catering, as one critic put it privately, to "the dowager taste, to the Main Line bluebloods who put up the dough." He himself concedes: "I should have done more new works-the late Stravinsky, Copland, the whole contemporary group." His predecessor, the flamboyant Leopold Stokowski, made a specialty of such works. But, says Ormandy, he got away with it because "the women were crazy about him. I am not so handsome...