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Secretary Shultz was quick to applaud Peres' qualified apology. "We are satisfied," he said. Shultz later announced that a team of American investigators would travel to Israel this week to interview officials implicated in the case. "We have every reason to believe the issues involved will be resolved satisfactorily," he said. "We expect these matters to go forward expeditiously and completely." Not everyone in the Reagan Administration was so sanguine. "The apology went a long way to meeting the concerns," said a high-ranking Administration official, "but we await the results." A top intelligence officer expressed skepticism of the State...
...break is the brainchild of the executive producer of NBC Sports, Michael Weisman, who "thought it would just be nice if everybody could kind of take an intermission." Advertisers applaud the idea, he claims, because viewers will more likely stay put for the commercials. And since the minute will come out of program time, not commercial time, NBC will forfeit no ad revenue ($400,000 per minute on the pregame show; a record $1.1 million per minute during the game). Nor is Weisman concerned about shortchanging viewers. "The universal criticism of Super Bowl pregame shows is that they...
...take it no more, All the news on the poor, Phony, phony, PHONY, Bishop Tutu's a fraud, But people applaud, Phony, phony, PHONY, It's all a Commie plot, But they say it's not, Phony, phony, PHONY...
...these reasons we applaud the decision of the Law School Administrative Board to reprimand Michael Anderson. This reprimand, which according to Anderson may damage his career, is the sort of punishment Harvard troublemakers, from 1969 to the present, have always feared the most: discipline which may jeopardize a student's future prospects...
Consumer groups, however, were not ready to applaud. "That's a good first step, but they haven't gone far enough," said Marla Kaplan, associate director of Bankcard Holders of America, a consumer advice service that claims some 100,000 members. "It's time rates came down still farther." Alan Fox, chief lobbyist for the Consumer Federation of America, said cardholders could save $500 million a year if the average credit rate dropped to 17.1%. A recent federation study estimated that consumers spend a whopping $6 billion a year in interest on purchases made with bank cards...