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...University of California-Berkeley, and Franklin W. Knight, professor of history at Johns Hopkins University--rejected appointment offers solely in Afro-Am, members of the executive committee which had recommended the three appointments said Huggins had turned down the same offer also. But when the University agreed to Huggins' request to be appointed in both Afro-Am and History, he reconsidered...
...spent the Easter weekend with his family at Camp David, pondering whether to give the Iranian leaders more time to change their minds or to impose immediately his long threatened economic and diplomatic sanctions. These would include a ban on all exports to Iran except food and drugs, a request that American allies reduce their trade with Tehran, and the expulsion of all Iranian diplomats in the U.S. Short of military action, these were the strongest weapons that Jimmy Carter could use in the longest and most frustrating crisis of his presidency...
...negotiating an end to the crisis. According to White House officials, Villalón was acting on his own in drafting the purported message from Carter to Khomeini, though a senior civil servant in Iran insisted that Villalón did it at the White House's request. (The day of Powell's denial, a high-level member of Carter's National Security Council said that some elements in the Villalón message were "familiar.") In any event, Villalón knew what arguments had been considered on both sides, and his intent apparently...
Inevitably, some New Yorkers' solutions to the problem of getting about were spectacularly original. One Brooklyn man telephoned Gloria McGill, owner of Chateau Stables, to request an elephant fitted with a platform and chair to take him from his home to his job on Staten Island. McGill said she would need 30 days to obtain a suitable beast (at $1,200 a day); the customer settled for a horse and carriage to pick...
During the final days of the battle for Tel Zaatar, a besieged Palestinian refugee camp that fell to Christian rightists during the Lebanese civil war in 1976, the last radio message that crackled over the air waves from the fighters inside was a request for the poems of Mouin Beseisso. "The partisans and fighters name Beseisso the poet of the revolution," came the message. "Let us hear his voice and his poems once more." Palestinian audiences listen with rapt attention to his strong, highly political verse, whose cadences reflect the long tradition of oral history and the loneliness...