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...Board of Overseers, an alumni-elected body which advises and approves important actions of the Corporation, voted yesterday afternoon to confirm Smith's election...
...Lehder's claim that in 1982, two U.S. officials offered him a "green light" to smuggle cocaine into the U.S., provided that he let them use Norman Cay, a Bahamian island he owned, to move guns to the contras. U.S. sources deny that such an offer was made but confirm that Lehder approached an American consular official and an agent of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and tried to sell them the island for use as a drug-interdiction post...
...nation that brought democracy to Japan and still guarantees its defense, those are not only ungracious sentiments but fighting words. They seem to confirm the implications of occasional opinion surveys that reflect a new degree of threat both countries sense in each other. Gennadi Gerasimov, the former Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman, phrased the development in a joking way last year. On a visit to Washington, he said "The cold war is over, and Japan won." In some views Japan is already achieving economically what it failed to win by force of arms: a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere...
When the Corporation picked Charles W. Eliot to be president of Harvard in 1869, the Board of Overseers refused to approve him. Only after months of negotiations and pressure did the overseers finally confirm his nomination--by a vote...
Cambridge and Harvard police officials refused to confirm or to deny that they are monitoring the store...