Word: chapman
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Robert H. Chapman, professor of English and director of the Loeb, said last night that nothing has been done to implement the report's recommendations, and that the as-yet-unformed Faculty Council on a Drama Center will probably handle implementation...
...Drama Council, according to the report, would act as an intermediary between student organizations and Chapman, and would help decide policy issues "as specific as the choice between competing applicants for time on any of the stages...
...withdrawal from Viet Nam and Cambodia was filled with high drama; in Laos the scene is more like farce. Throughout much of last week, U.S. Chargé d'Affaires Christian A. Chapman had to suffer the jeers and insults of a ragged band of leftist students as he tried to negotiate an end to their occupation of the USAID offices in the capital of Vientiane. This was once the headquarters of thousands of Americans who dispensed millions of dollars a year. Now it held only three trapped Americans living on C rations and candy bars...
...students had already ignored an order from Souvanna Phouma that the occupation be ended, thus forcing Chargé Chapman to deal directly with them and the Pathet Lao. After several long, difficult negotiating sessions-held inside the Interior Ministry building while students outside shouted at Chapman, "Sign it! Sign it!"-an agreement was finally worked...
Angry protests lodged at the Laotian Foreign Ministry by U.S. Chargé d'Affaires Christian A. Chapman did no good. In fact, the Laotian Cabinet-still nominally under the leadership of the neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma -legitimized the students' demands by insisting that the U.S. end all but formal diplomatic activity in Laos and that it turn over to the government all USAID material in the country. Left with no choice but compliance, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger announced that there will be a "substantial reduction" of U.S. personnel in Laos...