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...diplomat. Last year, for example, when 93 "nonaligned" countries signed a document criticizing the U.S. for, among other things, "aggression," after a pair of U.S. Navy jets shot down two Libyan fighters over the Gulf of Sidra, Kirkpatrick lashed out with a letter accusing them of what she called "absurd and erroneous charges" and "fabrications and vile at tacks." The upshot was that countries planning to criticize the document decided to keep silent, for fear of appearing to side with the U.S. Says a former U.S. official: "She practices diplomacy by insult...
...alarming corollary of anti-U.S. feeling is a possible swing by Argentina to the Soviet bloc for future aid, as absurd as that seems for a staunchly anti-Communist regime. After a 30-minute meeting with President Leopoldo Fortunate Galtieri last week, Soviet Ambassador Sergei Striganov expressed Moscow's "sympathy with the Argentine people's hard fight against British imperialism." Galtieri later said that he would accept "any hand that is offered" to aid his country. It was unclear just what the Soviets, who bought 75% of Argentina's grain exports last year, were prepared...
...point about using secrecy to obtain the professor truthful account offered up by Lewis as a partial defense of the College's current practice, is absurd on its face. An investigative body must operate on the assumption that it has the power to get its suspects to tell the truth. To act otherwise is to make every case a plea bargain, in which Harvard makes a major concession at the start of a case, merely in return for the professor's decision to tell the truth. The College should act with the assumption that its faculty members...
...while work went on to improve Radcliffe facilities. When the work was completed, E4A was given its first choice of location: two attractive rooms in the newly renovated Agassiz House. To imply that E4A has been victimized by the Radcliffe administration because of the condition of our furniture is absurd. To suggest this possibility serves only the questionable interest of the Crimson to distort fact and quote out of context in order to promote controversy. Suzanne W. Motheral Program Director
Though confusion seems to dominate the entire QRR operation, one absurd fact has emerged from beneath the mountain of tangled print-outs in the Science Center basement: Almost 200 freshman face a term on academic probation if they do not return to school early next fall and pass an exam which they failed to knock off during the past nine months...