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...most successful Harvard representatives helping out with the ongoing $150 million capital fund drive, and development officials report that the former dean of the Law School actually enjoys stepping out in front of a crowd on the Harvard Club banquet circuit--as long as he has his speech ready beforehand...
...technocrat who has always stood above the rough and tumble of local politics. There were rumblings of unrest within the party when De la Madrid's nomination was announced, particularly since the P.R.I.'s then president, Javier Garcia Paniagua, was not informed of the choice beforehand. Nonetheless the tug of party loyalty, along with some selective purges, has apparently got the machine pols into line, although major power struggles are still reported to be going on within the P.R.I...
...Falklands prior to Argentina's invasion-a total of 42 men-was a "sufficient deterrent against any possible aggression." Thatcher's explanation was that "I don't think any of us quite expected we would get a sudden invasion without an enormous increase in tension beforehand. We didn't get that increase in tension except a few days before...
...this process. But that contention seems questionable at best. More significantly, it appears a mere excuse for those who all along have been anxious to step up military aid. The leftist guerillas had been willing to run for the Assembly provided unconditional negotiations among all sides took place beforehand. But Washington insisted on elections first, talks later--driving the rebels from the polls for fear of retribution...
Some correspondents appeared to feel that nearly every tough questioner in the audience was promoting a political point. Lamentably, that was often the case, perhaps because ABC production aides who screened the questions beforehand were looking to create provocative exchanges. One woman condemned reporters for focusing on the human rights record of Argentina's ruling junta rather than attacking Britain's legal claim to the Falklands. Another premised her question on a claim that El Salvador's guerrillas represent "85% to 90% of the people," ignoring the fact that about 80% of the country's voters...