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...memorandum, he recommends delaying discussions of the Michelman Report--a three-year evaluation of the Law School's curriculum and teaching methods--until after the faculty has dealt with the split Nesson says that the disagreements inevitably generated by a heated curriculum debate will only widen the faculty rift...
Detlev F. Vagts '49. Goldston Professors of Law, notes that ironically the Law School's tolerant hiring policies during the late sixties may have contributed to the faculty rift. He says that, both under Griswold and immediately after, "many left-wing faculty members were appointed." He adds that "Most other schools were a little more narrow in faculty selection so [they] have less of a split...
Whether the rift between the U.S. and its Latin neighbors will prove serious depends on how long the Falklands dispute lasts. While the U.S. and Britain are aligned against a Latin American nation, "Hispanidad," the tradition of Latin American solidarity, will remain at the fore, overshadowing a myriad of inter-American territorial and ideological disputes, like Argentina's quarrel with Chile over the Beagle Channel. Already there are mutterings within the Organization of American States about moving the headquarters of that hemispheric coalition out of Washington, or forming a purely Hispanic rival group. Said a senior O.A.S. official: "Never...
Though he coolly carried out the Sinai settlement. Sadat's successor Hosni Mubarak plans to end the rift between Egypt and other Arab states created in the process; Israel can expect little flexibility from Cairo on the Palestinian issue...
While wooing China, Brezhnev tried to exploit the growing rift between Peking and Washington over the Reagan Administration's decision to continue selling F-5E jet fighters to Taiwan. The Soviet Union, he stressed, did not have a "two Chinas" policy-in other words, unlike the U.S., it did not maintain ties to the island, which mainland China considers an integral part of its territory. Brezhnev's bid was part of a long-range effort to lure China away from its friendship with the U.S. Says Robert Jensen, professor of geography at Syracuse University: The Soviets "are having...