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...West European allies and supplanting the postwar Pax Americana with a Pax Sovietica. The Soviets have insistently called for a conference on European security that would include all European countries, the U.S. and Canada. Some Western experts suspect that Moscow's purpose is only to have the European status quo formally recognized and create the illusion of peace. That would increase pressure on the U.S. to get out of Western Europe and dismantle NATO...
...finally aware of the size of the problem." They can hardly avoid it. In 1970, the cause that once concerned lonely crusaders like Rachel Carson became a national issue that at times verged on a national obsession; it appealed even to people normally enraged by attacks on the status quo. With remarkable rapidity it became a tenet in the American credo, at least partially uniting disparate public figures ranging from Cesar Chavez to Barry Goldwater and New York's conservative Senator-elect James Buckley...
Moscow's top-priority diplomatic project, a European Security Conference designed to affirm the status quo on the Continent. In their final communique, the NATO members announced that they would attend such a conference only if: 1) the Big Four reach an agreement on the position of West Berlin, and 2) other "ongoing talks," especially SALT, are "proceeding favorably...
...Frisoli has already proven himself," he said. "He can say no when no is the right answer and he can say yes when yes is right. He can maintain the status quo, and he is respected by teachers and students." Frisoli has taught and worked as an administrator in the Cambridge schools since...
...community investment seem doomed to founder in this dismal fiscal climate. But that is true only if ETOB ("every tub on its own bottom") remains the principal rule of allocation. By failing to assault vigorously the principle of ETOB, the memorandum inevitably stacked the arguments to support the status quo. ETOB really means that the deans and their faculties run roughshod over a relatively powerless administration, helpless to set priorities or to weigh alternative expenditures. Harvard must clearly have a systematic procedure for simultaneously appraising all possible options for raising and spending money. If the President and Fellows reassumed these...