Word: blum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never does anything or says anything unless he has thought it out endlessly." If the final product is exhaustively legalistic and ponderous--"unmistakably Bok's own work," says one insider--the letters themselves are unique. "That degree of absolute candor is quite rare of a college president," John M. Blum '57, a former member of the Corporation, says, adding, "The process merits approval even if one disagrees with the views." Bok says each letter took about 150 hours, and that he went through a minimum of ten drafts...
...distaste for fundraising, friends and colleagues say, is rooted in his essential modesty. "Bok is not a table-thumper," says John Blum '57, a former member of the Corporation, "he is a very diffident man." The first president of Harvard to forsake the official residence--Bok and his family live away from campus in Elmwood, a colonial house built in 1767 as a hospital for George Washington's troops and later used as the official resident of the dean of the Faculty--Bok does not enjoy the public exposure that comes with his office. As a close friend puts...
Calling the Israel Defense Force's presence in Lebanon "a limited operation," Blum said its goal is to preclude any further possibility of terrorist acts from that area. Monday, Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) terrorists attacked Kibbutz Misgav Am, killing three Israelis...
...Blum said the PLO's strong anti-Israel position is evdenced in its. "Three Stage Plan," introduced in 1974. The plan initially calls for a mini-state in the lands now occupied by Israel, then Israel's return to the borders outlined in the U.N. partition plan of 1947 and, finally, a "democratic secular state in all of Israeli held Palestine...
...reason to oblige them in this plan," Blum said, adding that a return to the pre-'67 borders, which would leave Israel with a breadth of less than eight miles in her most populated region, would be "sheer insanity and suicide...