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Secretary of State George Shultz was plunged into another delicate and important peace-keeping mission last week. This time, he was not involved in untangling the problems of the Atlantic Alliance or the Middle East. Instead, he was faced with an ill-defined upheaval in his own pinstriped bailiwick at Foggy Bottom. Washington's professional diplomats were up in arms over the Reagan Administration's surprise decision two weeks ago to replace Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Thomas O. Enders, 51, and U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Deane R. Hinton, 60, as the key players...
Speaking of his old bailiwick in Washington, Dunlop characterizes current relations between organized labor and the Reagan Administration as strained, attributing the differences to clashes in ideology and personalities, most notably the bitter air traffic controller's strike...
...owns Cowperthwaite St. (bailiwick of Dunster and Mather Houses)? Who owns Winthrop St.? Give...
...staffer, "beyond remarkable." He's built a library staff, which he ceaselessly praises as the most committed and competent in the nation, that has kept Harvard in the fore of the library world. The number of employees in the College Library system--those 15 which come under the Widener bailiwick--has stayed the same for the past ten years. But acquisitions of collections, and hence the workload of the staff, have dramatically increased. Harvard's library system, once labelled a network so vast and expansive that one can get happily lost," boasts almost 100 branch libraries holding nearly 10 million...
Boston's two other division-leading clubs are getting ready to close out their seasons in somewhat more stylish fashion. The Tea Men, fresh from a little get-together with some British customs officers in Boston Harbor, should finish up atop their little bailiwick in the North American Soccer League, although their chances of survival in the playoffs are cloudy at best. The season will end for the team on Saturday in Memphis, with Teaperson Mike Flanagan making a last stab at surpassing New York Cosmo Giorgio Chinaglia for the league scoring crown (at this writing Flanagan trailed...