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...PAST few years, Harvard and Cambridge have moved to the forefront of the national debate over world armaments and arms control. The publication of Living with Nuclear Weapons at the behest of President Bok and the city-wide referendum last fall on a nuclear weapons testing and production ban are but two of the more prominent and commendable manifestations of this trend. The debate has its darker side, however, and nothing illustrate this better than recent local controversy over a global problem--chemical and biological warfare...
...raised on her own from infancy after her first husband's death would simply let something fall on his head. Mickey, her current spouse, cannot disagree; he feels unworthy of Jeanie, probably with cause. He drives a refrigerated truck and sells stolen meat at the behest of his boss, a remote functionary of the Philadelphia Mob. Mickey finds himself obliged to soothe his wife's pain in two ways: by coming up with the $6,000 or so it will take for a mahogany coffin and a dignified funeral and by begging his underworld connections to find...
...fact that Barrack had effectively contributed $70,000 of his own money to the deal. The listed purchasers were Santa Ynez Contractor Irv Howard, who made a down payment of $70,000, and the Great American Federal Savings Bank in San Diego, which had, at Barrack's behest, arranged a $240,000 mortgage for Howard at a favorable 11% interest rate. (Great American had already lent $423,000 to Meese at the time.) But last week Barrack testified that he had actually lent $70,000 to Ted Elkin, a former employee and a Bulgarian refugee, who immediately took over...
...line-up will also give Darman's mentor Baker a chance to consolidate the making of policy, which Meese nominally controlled, with political and legislative strategies. For the past three weeks, at Baker's behest, Darman has coordinated a daily 7:30 breakfast meeting in the White House mess that brought the previously bifurcated realms of the Executive apparatus together on an effective basis for the first time since Reagan took office. As a result of the changes, predicts a senior Administration official, "we'll be less inclined to go with off-the-wall stuff that cannot...
Contrast this to the Reagan Administration. For the first time in history, three women hod Cabinet-level posts simultaneously, all at the behest of Reagan--Jeanne Kirkpatrick at the U.N., Margaret Heckler at Health and Human Services, and Elizabeth Dole at the Department of Transportation. His lower-level appointments of women do not match up numerically with Jimmy Carter's at a similar point in Administration--95 to 113 for posts needing Senate confirmation, 10 to 18 for Federal judgeships--but he made history by appointing Sandra Day O'Vonnor to the Supreme Court. Also, comparison with Carter amounts...