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Wall could win the chairmanship, but then again, anti-gay campus sentiment and the new council members' apparent fixation on procedural questions could work against him. Should his election he seen as a clear impossibility by the time the council meets to choose its leaders Sunday night, two possible scenarios loom...
Feldstein has attained national prominence, not only through such publications, but also as head of the prestigious Cambridge-based consulting firm, the National Bureau of Economic Research. He was reportedly offered the CEA chairmanship when Reagan first took office two years ago, but turned it down to help complete a major bureau study on capital formation.MARTIN FELDSTEIN...
...newly built Grand Hotel, where dignitaries were quartered, only 16 of Africa's heads of state were present. That was less than half the necessary O.A.U. quorum of 34 leaders. Among the decisions that the O.A.U. could not make: the scheduled passing on of the coveted chairmanship of the Pan-African body to Gaddafi, who craves the status and respect ability that the title confers...
...week's end Gaddafi was still trying to find a way to make the formal summit take place. Failing that, he may attempt to organize an emergency O.A.U. meeting, probably in November, at which he could take over the chairmanship. Meanwhile the mercurial strongman contented himself with haranguing the "radical rump" of 16 leaders who showed up in Tripoli about the fact that their non-gathering had been "openly corrupted" by - who else? - "the American colonialists...
...indicated that he would consider seriously an offer from the White House even though he took himself out of the running for the CEA chairmanship shortly atter Rcagan's election in 1980. He told the incoming Administration at that time that he preferred to continue his teaching and research at Harvard and the National Buread of Economic Research, a private Cambridge based organization which he heads...