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...documents are secured two floors underground behind a steel door with a combination lock. There, they are regularly inspected by Harley P. Holden, the archives' curator. "I like to check these every few days," Holden says, as he opens up the large red folder that contains Harvard's original charter, drafted in 1650 but now stained and nearly illegible...
Baker led the White House team as the blue-ribbon commission on Social Security struggled to reach a compromise before its charter ran out. He argued inside the White House that failure to preserve the solvency of the Social Security system "not only had the potential of destroying this Administration, but the entire party." Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, a member of the commission, praised Baker as "a superb staff man." Says an aide to Republican Senate leaders admiringly: "Baker is a master poker player. He never shows his cards-and he wins...
...allies were not responsive to the latest Soviet overture. British Foreign Secretary Francis Pym pointed out that the United Nations Charter and the 1975 Helsinki Final Act contained "perfectly satisfactory" nonaggression clauses. In West Germany, where the NATO missile plan has become a major issue in the campaign leading up to national elections on March 6, Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher urged Moscow "to follow its words with deeds." Responding to the Andropov proposal to reduce the number of Soviet missiles to fewer than 162 if France and Britain trimmed their nuclear arsenals, French President Franç Mitterrand warned that...
...months after the initial attack, the majority of Israelis still approve of the war. For all the questions raised, most recognize the strategic gains won by expelling the PLO from Lebanon. The PLO is, according to its charter, at war with Israel and has vowed to destroy the Zionist nation. Israel went into Lebanon not to conquer a neighbor but to rid itself--and its neighbor--of a dangerous enemy...
...reorganizes the government and highlights differences between party and state. It restores the post of state chairman, scrapped by Mao Tse-tung in 1968, and sets up a central military commission to take control of the roughly 4 million-strong People's Liberation Army from the party. The charter also marks the eclipse of the people's communes, one of Mao's proudest legacies, by taking away the political duties of its leaders...