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...fellowships opened to women. However, as graduates of Radcliffe College, we feel uneasy about the envious tone used by the authors to describe the fellowships restricted to men. To us, differences in the size of the fellowships' awards do not determine the prestige or academic distinction that such fellowships confer. The authors of the article also fail to recognize that the $18,000 distributed by the Radcliffe fellowships could easily be divided into the same amounts as the $18,500 distributed by the Shaw, King, etc. Instead, Radcliffe has had a philosophy of assisting as many women as possible...
...Amman, Haig made little headway in his talks with King Hussein. A longtime opponent of the Camp David accords, Hussein refused to confer privately with Haig and insisted on including his advisers in the two-hour meeting; as a member of Hussein's court put it, "The King wanted witnesses." The Jordanian ruler bluntly told Haig that "Israeli intransigence" on the Palestinian problem posed the greatest threat to peace and called for Israel's total withdrawal from occupied Arab land. "We see two dangers-Soviet as well as Israeli expansionism," said a Hussein adviser. "If the Americans want...
Though aides publicly asserted that Reagan would confer late this month with Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo as scheduled, they conceded in private that the session might be called...
After a trip to New York to meet with Citibank officials, Stevens returned to Cambridge to confer with Harvard's treasurer and other officials. Within days, the sale of the $5 million certificate of deposit and the $45 million in floating rate notes had begun...
Whew! A Defense Secretary soft on defense. Furthermore, Evans and Novak wrote, one William Howard Taft III "incredibly . . . has wound up on the list for the department's No. 3 post," though he has been known to confer with a Government official "whose views generally coincide with Senator George McGovern...