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...February 1980, only a few weeks after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Saudis made a request for AWACS to National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and Warren Christopher, then No. 2 man at the State Department, who dropped by after a visit to Pakistan. The Saudis renewed that request in September, when the Iran-Iraq war broke out, this time turning to Air Force General David Jones, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, who was visiting Riyadh. Jones arranged for four U.S. AWACS planes to be dispatched to Saudi Arabia to monitor military movements in the region...
...Draper Peace Conversion Group has recently circulated an open letter requesting Draper Lab to take some preliminary steps in the conversion process--granting 10 per cent of their independent funds toward a study of the non-military projects the Lab could undertake. This letter, signed by several hundred Cambridge residents, was presented to Robert Duffy, the president of Draper, April 14. Three days later he met with one member of our group, and responded to the letter by offering to give a presentation on the Lab's non-weapons work--the applications of missile guidance technology to medicine, transportation, oceanography...
...agents in Miami, acting on the request of the Salvadoran government, ar rested Hans Christ, 30, a Salvadoran businessman, for possible extradition in connection with the murders. His arrest followed the seizure in El Salvador a week earlier of Ricardo Sol Meza, 35, a wealthy industrialist and, significantly enough, part owner of the San Salvador Sheraton. The arrests were based in part on the testimony of a hotel waitress who had witnessed the murders...
...Louis was my inspiration. I idolized him. He wrote the book on boxing-the way he stood, the way he blocked shots was beautiful. I just give lip service to being the greatest. He was the greatest." Louis was to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery at the request of President Reagan, the dancing done, the piper paid in full...
...report, which the faculty will vote on in several weeks, also recommends that grades be given to the Harvard Law Review only at the "affirmative request of the student concerned." Grades, which are crucial factor in the Review's selection process, are now given to the publication automatically at the end of the first year...