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Aside from the merits of each request, there seems to be an underlying motive uniting the hopes of the various arts programs. They all say they want respect. (Creative writing may be all exception. Says Engel, "Students who take creative writing are not ghettoized...
Moon's counsel charged that the government's refusal to accede to his request "in substance and effect punished [Moon] for exercising his right to freedom of expression" and "doomed him to a conviction based on religious prejudice...
...were pleased with its administration, to the Interior Department, where its urban orientation might be lost. The President called Mayor Daley, Chicago's powerful political leader, and asked him to tell me, the lobbyist for the nation's larger cities, to back off. The mayor refused the President's request. Again, in January 1979, when President Carter and his staff were angered at my public analysis and criticism of the deep cuts in urban programs proposed in the 1980 budget, the executive committee of the Mayor's Conference--three-fourths of whom were Democrats--refused White House requests to repudiate...
...heat over his remarks increased, Reagan and his aides tried to put them in a softer light. After complaining that his comments on intelligence deficiencies had been "distorted" by reporters, Reagan telephoned Carter with what presidential aides called "an explanation." But by complying with Carter's request that the call be made public, it amounted to a rare apology from Reagan. What Reagan had really intended, an aide said, was to refer to "a decade-long decline" in intelligence capacity. Reagan told Carter that he did not blame him for the embassy tragedy The flurry over Reagan...
...activity to parks and to official sporting facilities. Clint Halloran, 43, a trim Australian attaché who serves as Hash Master, the elected head of the in formal club, chose not to regard the Soviet demand as a worsening of East-West relations. In compliance with the Soviets' request, the runs have been rescheduled for nonrush hours and moved to various parks and suburbs, like the area around the U.S. embassy dacha, ten miles from the Kremlin. "There was a real danger of someone being knocked down and injured," said Halloran, adding cheerfully, "They didn...