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...reporters that "both aspects of the problem had been taken into account," referring to Iran's grievances and the freeing of the captives. A U.N. official admitted that it was not much but "there was just enough to make us feel that it would be a mistake to abandon the idea of the commission." Moreover, Waldheim had put an enormous amount of personal effort into the enterprise. Though he has not been highly regarded by the State Department (he is viewed as overcautious and unimaginative), U.S. officials give him high marks for his performance in the hostage crisis...
Trudeau pledged in his campaign to abandon the recommended 18? tax as unfair to lower-income Canadians. Said he: "We would agree to a tough budget, but not one that is tough with the wrong people...
...Harvard, Stanley divided his time between research--focusing on United States-Philippine relations in the 20th century--and his teaching abilities. At Carleton, Stanley has been forced to abandon daily teaching for administrative work, but from what his associates say, he's made the adjustment perfectly. "I'm glad we got him," says Jean Phillips, associate dean of students. "He's a breath of fresh air." Stanley is responsible for a great deal of Carleton's daily functioning as well as for serious, long-term academic planning. "I'm a micro-Rosovsky," he explains, a teaching/scholarly dean whose primary responsibility...
...both Korea and Viet Nam, many thousands of American lives were uselessly thrown away because the politicians, bemused by the apparently inexhaustible supply of draftable bodies, chose to abandon sound military principles and send them into battle with artificial restrictions imposed on the use of our air and sea power which were the same as sending them to be slaughtered with one hand tied behind their backs...
Kennedy backers hope that the speech will rekindle fervor for their candidate. Enthusiasm, in fact, is now financing much of the campaign, since contributions declined dramatically after the Iowa defeat and have only gradually started to come in again. Kennedy had to abandon his lavish 727 jet for a modest twin-engine plane, and reporters must now follow him around New Hampshire and Maine in small planes of their...