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...ranking Soviet diplomat, a former top adviser to Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and, for the past five years Under Secretary-General of the U.N., one of Kurt Waldheim's senior deputies. The two Soviets were told that the office had in fact been sealed at Shevchenko's own request the night before. More alarmed than ever, Shevchenko's assistants hurried to their real headquarters, the Soviet mission on East 67th Street in Manhattan...
Weinberger's technique in selling his budgets is simplicity itself: arrive at a total and keep insisting that it is uncuttable. Every year at budget time, other Administration operatives pressure Weinberger to pare back his spending request. The President invariably sides with Weinberger. He continues to think of him as Cap the Knife, a budgetmaker who does not ask for anything that is not necessary. Says Frank Carlucci, Weinberger's deputy for two years and now a Sears, Roebuck executive: "It's that constituency of one that makes all the difference...
...extracurricular" status, mandated by the 1969 Faculty repudiation of the organization, is not threatened. Nor is anyone proposing that ROTC return to Harvard. Indeed, there is some doubt as to whether one or more of the services could even be induced to return, should Harvard make such an unlikely request. High cost, a large number of ROTC units in the Boston area, and the memory of rejection would all work against any desire by the services to set up units...
...January 20th Kup's show, Boston TV Channel 44, Kupcinet asked the Reverend Jackson about a request from the mayor of Jerusalem, Teddy Kollek. The mayor had asked the Reverend Jackson to speak to the governments of Ethiopia and Sudan to allow rescue of the Black Jews, Beta Israel, remaining in Africa. The Reverend Jackson said he would look into it but that it was a very delicate matter...
...medical area clerical and technical employees voted against unionization. UAW organizers appealed to the NLRB for another election, but the NLRB rejected the request, arguing that the medical workers do not represent an independent unit...