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...East picture was just one of the problems that the Saudi campaign, for all of its hopeful aspects, posed to U.S. policymakers. If the Fahd plan is approved at the Fez summit, Washington would come under increasing pressure from its own Western allies to deal with the P.L.O. in spite of Israeli protests. Said one senior State Department official: "It will mean a new ball game in the Middle East. People will say, 'The P.L.O. has finally done what the Americans have wanted it to do. It has accepted Israel's right to exist, so there should...
That's not surprising, because he does have talent. He had enough skill and determination to be a two-year starter, in spite of the fact that Harvard didn't recruit him. "All the other schools I applied to recruited me--Army, William and Mary, practically every team we played this year recruited me--but not Harvard. Harvard didn't have its act together in Washington that year," he jokes, "but that didn't matter, because I wanted to go to Harvard...
...spite of first denying that Americans were involved with the Libyan military, the State Department, after discussing the matter with the CIA, last week confirmed that U.S. citizens have been hired to service, and work as crew members on, Libya's Hercules troop transport planes and Chinook military helicopters. Said a State Department spokesman of the activities promoted by the former CIA agents: "We find it reprehensible and against the interest of peace and security." Wilson, operating out of his posh villa in Tripoli, is still actively engaged in providing support for the Libyan military, and the Times quotes...
Harding believes that, in spite of current dim forebodings, the '80s will provide Blacks with opportunities to develop. Consciousness of past accomplishments and of the difficulties that others have faced can stimulate a movement that will remold the entire country's attitudes and prejudices. Whether this decade realizes his prediction is not absolutely essential; he has, and will instill in others, King's dream that "one day this nation will rise up [and] live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.'" As long as the dream...
Yale, however, withdrew from this year's EAIAW field hockey championships in spite of receiving a qualifying bid. The Elis made this decision not for monetary reasons, but because Yale's athletic director did not feel that the Elis 6-7 record merited a place in the tournament...