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...specifics of Reagan's proposal, advanced in a speech at Eureka College, his alma mater, are less important than the underlying attitudes of the Administration which produced it. Clearly, the Russians are not going to jump at a plan which would have its greatest on land based ballistic missiles, on which Moscow relies much more heavily than does the U.S. and leaves unaffected such American weapons as the Cruise missile and intercontinental bombers. Therefore, when and if the two sides get down to business in Geneva, the Administration will likely confront a Kremlin counter-proposal which it finds as unpalatable...
...CAMPDAVID "framework for peace" of September 1978 ended the stalemate of intractable conflict. Israel surrendered the Sinai, including the Alma oil fields it had developed which would have provided economic security for a country faced with hostility on all sides. By handing back Sharm el-Sheikh and the Rafah salient, Israel also relinquished two key military assets. So fervent was the desire for peace, however, even the hero Dayan (then the foreign minister) assented to total withdrawal when he realized that Egypt would not countenance settlements such as Yamit in the Sinai...
Haggerty has been an integral part of the Harvard track team since he came to Harvard in 1964. During his four years on the squad, he was an outstanding hurdler and sprinter and immediately upon graduation he began coaching those events for his alma mater...
...said yesterday that the Brazilians nixed the events because their best medleyist. Ricardo Prado, couldn't make the meet. Prado is finishing his senior year at Mission Viejo High School--Barnes' alma mater...
...reunion of The Group that brought the prodigal daughter back from Paris to her alma mater, but an invitation to celebrate her 70th birthday by being Vassar's first "Distinguished Visitor." Mary McCarthy, class of '33, the ironical Athena of American letters (The Stones of Florence, Memoirs of a Catholic Girlhood, Cannibals and Missionaries) returned to the scene of her biting 1963 bestseller about the travails of eight alumnae. She has always thought Vassar had good teachers, it was the students she objected to. In the 1950s she described them as a "pretty, polite, docile and serene mass...