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Queen Elizabeth may have been put off by the extreme security precautions enveloping Reagan's trip. For instance, her aides refused a request that U.S. stewards watch over preparation of the President's food. Other hosts were miffed too. In Rome, Spadolini was kept by U.S. security men from going through the tight cordon outside the Palazzo Chigi until Italian police could finally inform them that the gentleman they were holding up from a meeting with Reagan was the Prime Minister of Italy. In Bonn, U.S. security men annoyed the Germans by insisting on inspecting the carbines...
...Jesuit-run Central American University in San Salvador suggested that the vote totals had been hyped outrageously. At the same time, the newly elected, rightist-dominated constituent assembly's suspension of a significant part of the U.S.-backed land reform program put the Reagan Administration's request for increased military and economic aid in serious jeopardy in Congress and set the stage for yet another power struggle within El Salvador...
...strategy used by University officials. In several cases that would most likely have led to angry exchanges with the city council in years past. Harvard administrators this time realized that their goals could best be achieved through cooperation with neighborhood residents. Harvard responded positively, for example, to a request by local merchants for and in finding more parking space. The University offered the businessmen the use of part of the Business School lot, and thus avoided a series of hostile public exchanges...
Harvard completed the window installation in April and is awaiting a rent control hearing June 22 on its request for rent increases generated by the renovations. While agreeing to allow the final stages of the project to proceed. Ware St. residents served notice that they will oppose the rent increases at the board meeting. And the Harvard Tenants Union has asked the rent board for a ruling on Harvard's right to enter tenants apartments to conduct repairs...
...Zeckhauser asking her to "sit down with representatives of the union in an effort to reconcile differences." Zeckhauser ignored the return address listed on Turk's letter--the official address of the union--and sent her response to Turk's personal address. She did not directly refuse Turk's request for a meeting but stated that HRE responds only to "specific complaints and suggestions from specific tenants about their individual units and building common areas affecting them." She said in a subsequent interview that HRE would not alter its stance and recognize the union in the future...