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...story in yesterday's Crimson inaccurately reported the status of a request that the Undergraduate Council endorse a petition asking Harvard to reschedule 1984's Commencement because it conflicts with a Jewish holiday. The council is still considering the request and has made no decision about...
...newspaper As Safir printed what it claimed was a transcript of a conversation between U.S. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and Saudi Defense Minister Sultan Ibn Abdul Aziz in Paris on May 12, 1983. Weinberger was quoted as saying that he had not informed President Reagan about a Saudi request for 20 F-15 fighters because "it would be leaked to Congress and the press," thus jeopardizing the deal. According to the transcript, Weinberger generously offered his Saudi counterpart a shipment of sophisticated M-l tanks, which he said were "not in the hands of the American Army even...
...When rumors began circulating last week that Chief of Staff James Baker might leave his post to become commissioner of baseball, Baker made full use of the jocular material at hand. In response to reporters' shouts of "Play ball!," Baker pantomimed a pitch, and grinned at every fatuous request for tickets to the World Series. Even his colleagues got in a few cuts. At a staff meeting, Baker found an official major league baseball next to his coffee cup. Said another Reagan aide: "He's having some fun with the whole thing...
Councilor Leonard J. Russell, however, had a different request. "I'm asking Santa to make me mayor," Russell said. The nine councilors will elect one of their number to the position after the new council is sworn is in January...
Only Councilor Francis H. Duehay '55 asked for something that Santa could actually put in his bag. "I'd like a pair of slippers, but that's about the only request I have at the moment," Duehay said...