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Calkins and other University officials have said that the request to end the blanket policy on loans stems from criticism over Harvard's disclosure last February of the sale of $51 million of loans and certificates in Citibank, whose parent company had made loans to South Africa for apparently humanitarian purposes...
...call for help that flashed into the Canadian Armed Forces Search and Rescue Coordination Center in Halifax, N.S., at 1:56 a.m. carried an unmistakable note of desperation: "Request assistance a.s.a.p. ... We are an offshore drilling platform ... Winds at this time are approx.... 75 knots.. . Rig is of semisubmersible build ... is listing severely 12° to 14°portside...
...some time before our bureaucracy agreed that war had actually begun, or that the Arabs had started it. That was all too evident at a meeting convened in the capital at my request of the Washington Special Actions Group (or WSAG, which consisted then of the National Security Adviser, senior representatives of the State and Defense Departments, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the director of Central Intelligence). CIA Director William Colby reported without disagreement that according to Damascus radio, Israel had launched the attack. Defense Secretary James Schlesinger commented that while Syria's reputation for veracity...
...addition to proposing affirmative action programs for student admissions and faculty-hiring, the coalition will request that the Law School intensify its efforts to recruit minority students...
...murders of four American missionaries. After publicly speaking out against additional U.S. military aid to EI Salvador, White was immediately relieved of his post by the Reagan Administration. To add insult to injury, after testifying candidly before a House subcommittee. White was "retired" from the Foreign Service at the request of an embarrassed Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig...