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Serious Error. Still more embarrassing to Kissinger was the growing controversy over the revelation that Edward R.F. Sheehan, a Harvard International Affairs research fellow, had access to secret State Department documents last fall while working on a book on Kissinger's shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East. In an article for the current issue of Foreign Policy magazine, Sheehan praises Kissinger as having been "at the apogee of his skill" during those negotiations (TIME, March 15). The article quotes directly from the dialogue of Kissinger's conversations with such leaders as Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli former Premier...
When protests arose over this use of supposedly secret information, a State Department spokesman last week promised an investigation and declared: "Insofar as any State Department official provided Mr. Sheehan with information based directly on memoranda of conversations, this was unauthorized, a serious error of judgment, and disciplinary action will be taken...
...internal department probe was a charade. Sheehan had, in fact, played to Kissinger's ample ego by writing a letter to Assistant Secretary Alfred L. Atherton Jr., who heads the Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs. It was full of encomiums about the Secretary and asked for Kissinger's cooperation in the author's research. Sheehan thought he was "laying it on a little thick," but sent the letter anyway. Atherton showed it to Kissinger, who told him to help Sheehan. Atherton preserved the fiction of not disseminating classified documents by reading aloud to Sheehan...
Tuition at Penn is still among the lowest in the Ivy League but total costs, including room and board, are close to the Ivy average, Sheehan said...
Donald P. Sheehan, secretary of the corporation, said yesterday that the university suffered a $3.5 million deficit in 1975 but is now operating on a balanced budget and trying to preserve that status...