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Such an arrangement would be novel, but nowhere near as intriguing as the transfer of Clark that prompted it. In the first few hours after that move, even the most savvy officials could not believe their ears. A senior White House staff member who informed colleagues about the change just before Reagan publicly announced it encountered such incredulity that he had to insist, "I'm not joking, it's the truth." Legislative Aide Kenneth Duberstein, phoning Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker with the news, argued for three minutes before he could convince Baker that it was not an elaborate...
...past weeks, officials from the U.S., Britain, West Germany and several gulf nations have expressed their misgivings to the government of President Francois Mitterrand about the jet delivery. Paris did hold up the transfer for three weeks, partly because the government did not want the news to come out before Mitterrand's speech on nuclear disarmament at the United Nations late last month. But French officials have also argued that the Super Etendards might, in fact, persuade the Iranians to pursue a negotiated settlement-to which Iraq is already pledged-thus ending the bloodshed. The French have another, less...
...Colleague Louise Fletcher (who is unpersuasive as a threat to his marriage, incidentally) have developed a Rube Goldberg earmuff device that permits the transfer of thoughts and feelings from one brain to another...
When she came to the United States a little more than a year ago from Warsaw, the new transfer student had to suppress the instinct to always carry her I.D. in case she was stopped and had to overcome a fear of speaking on the telephone, she says. She still looked around to see if anyone was listening to her conversations whenever she ate out at restaurants...
After a year in Cambridge with her family--her father was a Nieman Fellow--she decided to apply as a transfer student from the University of Warsaw to Harvard. But the decision to apply wasn't made without some reluctance. Wroblewska wanted to go back to Poland...