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...spunk can turn to bile. At the end of a rugged four-day campaign swing, she gave an ungenerous press conference. "Where have you been?" she snapped to a not-too-acute questioner, and said to another, "I answered that before-wasn't I loud enough?" Republicans contend that displays of her clackety-clack Queens, N.Y., style put off vast numbers of voters. Says one White House aide of Ferraro: "She comes across as too abrasive." Richard Wirthlin, the President's pollster, suggests her audiences are swollen by the converted and the merely curious. "She is a historical...
Murphy's return to Syria suggested to some that Assad might be amenable to a U.S.-brokered Israeli withdrawal. It has generally been assumed that Syria felt it had nothing to lose in seeing Israel mired in Lebanon. Some Western diplomats in Damascus contend, however, that Assad now fears that the growing violence against the Israelis in southern Lebanon may trigger a retaliatory attack by Israel against Syrian troops. These diplomats do not believe that Damascus has dropped its demand that Jerusalem unilaterally withdraw its soldiers and disband the Israeli-supplied Lebanese militia that helps patrol the region. Syria...
...president of the Air Line Pilots Association. Fears were heightened this past summer by a spate of mid-air near collisions. In August, for example, a private aircraft came within 100 feet of a Delta jet carrying 146 people shortly after the larger plane left Washington. Nonetheless, most experts contend that U.S. skies remain remarkably safe. On regularly scheduled passenger flights last year, there were three fatal accidents out of 4.9 million departures, with a death toll of twelve. No fatalities have been recorded so far this year...
...knew last season, when Detroit's record was the third best in the major leagues, that in his four years he had about cultivated a crop to contend with his mid-'70s Reds. The city and the organization had been waiting somewhat longer, having held on so stubbornly to the World Champion Tigers of 1968-Al Kaline, Norm Cash, Bill Freehan, Jim Northrup et al.-until that whole class expired practically in unison. A tendency to sentiment was understandable, though. In July of 1967, Detroit had hosted one of the biggest and bloodiest of the race riots...
Despite these conclusions, some critics contend that Harvard should divest rather than continue its practice of voting on shareholder resolutions and communicating with corporate managements because the present practice has failed to overcome apartheid or to close the gap in wages and working conditions between Black and white workers. This argument misconceives the current policy. The University did not adopt this policy because it felt that its actions-or any action that universities could take-would have a substantial effect on apartheid Harvard decided on this course of action in the conviction that it should vote shares as conscientiously...