Word: brents
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...alumni and alumnae of Brent School, in the Philippine mountain city of Baguio, were in for some cultural shocks. Having traveled 7,000 or 8,000 miles to celebrate the 75th anniversary of a school most of them had not seen for more than 40 years, they found something quite different from the tight little American island they had once known...
...center, the guest speaker was the Philippine Minister of Education. Responding to him, Headmaster Peter Caleb said, "We are proud to be part of the Republic of the Philippines." This would never have been said 40 years ago-and only partly because the Republic did not then exist. Although Brent students felt affection for the Filipino houseboys and, indeed, the Filipino people, no one dreamed that any of them might actually enroll. This was an American school in the Philippines, not a Philippine school...
Despite the Soviet leader's disclaimer, Administration officials remain convinced that the Soviet Union will make no moves this year that could hi any way help Reagan's re-election campaign. Retired General Brent Scowcroft, head of the President's bipartisan Commission on Strategic Forces, returned from a recent visit to Moscow with a gloomy assessment of the prospects for a breakthrough in arms control. Said he: "The political and psychological atmosphere between Washington and Moscow is as bad as it's been in my memory...
...flashed when Chernenko first took power has long since been extinguished. The Soviet leader's replies to two letters from Reagan seeking specific responses on various issues consisted of "puzzling vagaries," according to a State Department official privy to the correspondence. A third letter, carried by retired General Brent Scowcroft, head of the President's Bipartisan Commission on Strategic Forces, on a private visit to Moscow, failed to reach Chernenko because the Soviets refused to let Scowcroft deliver it at an appropriate diplomatic level. Says Harvard Professor Paul Doty, who was traveling with Scowcroft: "That was the Soviet...
...Brent A. Curry Scottsdale, Ariz...