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...stake. The whole direction of U.S.-Soviet relations is going to be significantly marked by the outcome of the first summit meeting in six years." --A White House aide, paraphrasing the speech Ronald Reagan will deliver Thursday before departing for Geneva...
Even a Prime Minister can become a Washington lobbyist when a big military contract is at stake. But despite a personal appeal from Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to President Reagan, the U.S. Army last week chose a U.S.-French consortium to supply it with a sophisticated, $4.3 billion field-radio system. In one of the largest U.S. military contracts ever awarded for a foreign-designed system, the Army picked RITA, a joint venture by France's Thomson-CSF and GTE of Stamford, Conn., and turned down a competitive system offered by the British-American combine of Plessey Co. and Rockwell...
...years at Harvard, he is moving in January to the more congenial precincts of the University of Chicago Law School, a redoubt of legal conservatism. Calling the C.L.S. movement a force for "philistinism" and "mediocrity," Bator believes that the intellectual integrity and academic excellence of Harvard are at stake. "On that," he has declared, "there is no right or left. Only right and wrong...
...world's largest uranium reserves. The two countries are working on a nuclear safeguards agreement. "We believe in the peaceful use of nuclear energy," says Foreign Minister Downer. Although environmentalists are not the political force they have been in the past, uranium mine expansions or a Chinese stake in the industry would bring protesters to the streets. The Howard government has changed the way Australia addresses Chinese human rights violations by pursuing what Downer describes as a "practical and constructive" bilateral dialog rather than by condemning China in a meaningless vote in Geneva. Critics say that approach is only slightly...
Playing in its regular-season finale with almost nothing at stake, the Harvard men’s volleyball team posted a 0.000 hitting percentage and was routed 3-0 (30-21, 30-21, 30-22) by EIVA conference rival St. Francis Friday evening in Loretto...