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President Bok this week began a year-long term as chairman of the board of directors of the American Council on Education (ACE) and as such will become "a leading spokesman for higher education," according to the council's director of public relations. Bok said that as chairman of the council--America's largest coalition of colleges, universities and other higher-education groups--he plans to meet regularly with politicians and federal administrators in an effort to "try and help articulate a set of responsible positions towards the Reagan administration...
...from the Iranian-Iraqi front. Although a spokesman for a group of former officers loyal to the Shah claimed to have sabotaged the plane, both the government and Mujahedin leaders believed the crash was most likely an accident. Only days earlier, Iran had claimed its "biggest victory" in the year-long border conflict when its forces broke the Iraqi siege of Abadan, a key oil-refining center. Later, the Kuwaiti government protested that Iranian jets had attacked an oil installation in Kuwait. The Iranians denied the charge, but in Washington, Secretary of State Alexander Haig confirmed that U.S.-manned AWACS...
Benetazzo plans to study American and Soviet foreign policy during the year-long fellowship and said he will use his research to help explain relations between the superpowers to his readers...
...After a year-long study, we have concluded that the interests of the University and the quality of life for Harvard's faculty, students and other residents can best be served by placing responsibility for the marketing and management of Harvard's properties into a closely-held, professionally managed real estate corporation...
...this one chaired by Paul M. Doty, now Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry--and found that the steadily expanding list of Gen Ed courses were too elementary and not experimental enough, and proposed a series of reforms to make Gen Ed more modern and more exciting. Another year-long debate ensued...