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President Bok commissioned five prominent professors to write a definitive layman's guide to nuclear-related issues. Bok had announced his intention to use Harvard's resources in this effort during his June 10 Commencement address. Largely at Bok's behest, the Kennedy School of Government has already begun a program to brief journlists on the nuances of nuke-talk...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: What You Missed | 9/17/1982 | See Source »

...Pont operates Savannah River, near Aiken, S.C., on a non-profit basis for the government. Built by the chemicals giant in 1950 at the behest of the DOE's ancestor, the Atomic Energy Commission, the plant produces plutonium and tritium for nuclear weapons production. Harvard owns almost $5 million of Du Pont stock...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: Making Bombs With Harvard's Bucks | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

President Bok commissioned five prominent professors to write a definitive layman's guide to nuclear-related issues. Bok had announced his intention to use Harvard's resources in this effort during his June 10 Commencement address. Largely at Bok's behest, the Kennedy School of Government has already begun a program to brief journalists on the nuances of nuke-talk...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: What You Missed | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...first letter Reagan has not addressed "Dear Menachem" since the two men met last September. The President reminded Begin that U.S. weapons could only be used for defensive purposes. But a warning about possible sanctions that was included in an early draft was left out, partly at the behest of America's Ambassador to Israel, Samuel Lewis, who argued that even raising the issue would infuriate the Begin government. Reagan's accompanying public statement was, once again, even more muted. Said he: "I have expressed to the government of Israel the absolute necessity of re-establishing and maintaining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Push Comes to Shove: Israel flouts U.S. diplomacy with an attack on Beirut | 8/16/1982 | See Source »

...bony runt of a Wharton School student-to-be named Doug Silverstein. Some field no-hit plenty-talk Silverstein embodied all that was good and bad about Little League: unending enthusiasm tarnished by a willingness to steal the opposing team's equipment bag at the coach's behest. He is getting "A's" at business school...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Different Perspectives on The Summer Game | 6/20/1982 | See Source »

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