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...held in my hand'--and announced that they were affidavits from everyone the Crimson reporter had interviewed at Yale, each denying the quotes attributed to him." Fairfield says he asked Buckley for copies of these affidavits but Buckley "icily informed me that he had no intention of honoring my request. I could then only concluded that he had lied about the affidavits...
...industriousness has earned the Cubans considerable respect, but with a new wave of 5,000 to 6,000 immigrants expected, there is a fear that the local economy can no longer absorb them. North Jersey Congressmen, mayors, clergymen and community leaders met last week to form a committee to request federal aid for the resettlement. Says Union City Mayor William V. Musto: "There's no comparison between the economy...
...move incensed some of the President's aides, who had no idea it was coming. Said one: "It's a terrible thing to do. He could have stayed around long enough for Carter to repair himself." On Monday morning the formalities were completed; this time Carter did not request Vance to reconsider. During their final talk, Vance recommended that he be succeeded by Deputy Secretary Christopher...
...Minister Andrei Gromyko was not at all in a conciliatory mood. Flying into Paris for two days of talks with French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Gromyko brushed aside the European Community's standing proposal for the neutralization of Afghanistan. He spurned a specific French request to spell out a timetable for Soviet withdrawal. Overall, he made it bluntly clear that Moscow does not consider its continued occupation to be any of Western Europe's business. Posing with the Soviet diplomat for French television cameras, Giscard appeared stern and somber...
...think it incumbent upon the Executive Committee on Afro-American Studies to reconsider its errant decision. I think it incumbent upon President Bok to insist that this decision be reconsidered. I also think the new chairman of the Afro-Am Department, my old friend Professor Nathan Huggins, should request the Executive Committee to reconsider its pernicious action. Would, incidentally, the Executive Committee members who opposed Professor Genovese prefer a conservative or right-wing historian with comparable scholarly credentials? Perhaps. But, speaking as a Black, let me say that given a choice between Professor Genovese and a conservative historian of same...