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Sadat has already begun what he describes as a "liberalization in all fields," meaning a far-reaching political and economic overhaul of Egyptian society. His predecessor, Nasser, tried to build Arab socialism by turning the country into a police state: newspapers were censored, telephones tapped and xenophobia was so encouraged that uncomfortable foreign businessmen went home. Today the concentration camps are empty. Moreover, fewer telephones are tapped, and the secret police are at least less visible. The new editor of the semi official Cairo daily al Ahram is Ali Amin, a journalist who spent nine years in exile during...
...airline's troubles do not originate in the corporate cockpit. Analysts credit Pan Am Chairman William T. Seawell, 56, with superbly piloting the airline through a difficult cost-cutting program initiated by his flamboyant predecessor, Najeeb Halaby, who was ousted in 1972. Under Seawell, Pan Am has trimmed several thousand employees from its work force, slashing it to the level of the mid-1960s, when the volume of passengers and freight was much lower. Among those who were forced to bail out were a flock of highly paid vice presidents. Says Analyst Mike Steinberg of Loeb, Rhoades...
This week, in the first of two installments, TIME presents excerpts from Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament, a second volume of memoirs that will be published in June by Little, Brown & Co. Like its predecessor, Khrushchev Remembers, the new book is based on tapes dictated by the late Soviet leader during the years before his death in 1971 and is a historical document of enormous value. The tapes were translated and edited by Strobe Talbott, who has served as TIME correspondent in Eastern Europe. In the introduction to The Last Testament, Diplomatic Editor and former Moscow Bureau Chief Jerrold...
...that the Strike wasn't the herald of revolution some people thought it at the time. Derek Bok's administration differs from its discredited predecessor because Bok is willing to make procedural compromises to keep controversy under wraps, not because its commitment to democracy or its independence of purpose is much greater...
Meanwhile, students continued to bring political protest into the operations of the University, and as a result official student-Faculty relations deteriorated. On March 25, 150 students stormed into a closed meeting of the Student-Faculty Advisory Committee, a now-defunct group that was the predecessor of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life, where President Pusey talked about keeping ROTC on campus. Some liberal Faculty members at the meeting asked the protesters to leave, just as other Faculty liberals at the Paine Hall sit-in had done...