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Back in Oak Creek, where Mrs. Timm is on leave from her job as a switchboard operator at an ironworks foundry, some townspeople consider her a traitor for going off to Iran against the Administration's wishes. Others contend that she had at least for a moment eased the tensions between the U.S. and the militants by personalizing and depoliticizing the situation. Her younger sister, Judy Haessly, 34, takes a more down-to-earth view: "She's not a traitor, and she's not Joan of Arc. She's just a mother who wants...
Both Maher and Danley contend that psychology is a broad enough discipline to offer plenty of flexibility to concentrators. Independent research projects and honors theses provide students with an opportunity to work closely with a senior faculty member, Maher says. Aldo A. Badini '80, for example, has spent three years working on projects with Robert Rosenthal, professor of social psychology...
...superpowers' nuclear arsenals. When Moscow balked, Carter quickly dropped the initiative. The allies found Carter's stands on the Soviets' so-called combat brigade in Cuba particularly confounding: first the presence of the unit on the island was "not acceptable," then it was tacitly accepted. At times, the allies contend, it has been totally unclear who really has been in charge of formulating the Administration's approach to the Soviets: the generally cautious Secretary of State Cyrus Vance or the more hawkish National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. This has prompted the West Germans to label the U.S. policy...
...true bêtes noires: "The impassioned groups that shout in our courtrooms today 'All power to the people' are unaware that they are calling for mob rule of which many of their forebears were victims." Of reverse discrimination, Hook demands: "Would it be reasonable to contend that women should have been compensated for past discrimination against their maternal forebears by being given an extra vote or two ... ?" Nor is he indulgent to political philosophers-"those of us who are concerned with current issues ... we need only refer to Santayana's apologias for Mussolini and Stalin, Heidegger...
...incident nonetheless nourished the claims of Israeli Premier Menachem Begin and his hard-lining supporters, who contend that full-fledged self-determination on the West Bank would lead to a P.L.O. state and a permanent threat to Israeli security. To dramatize that message, at the funerals for the slain kibbutz members, Begin declared: "We are no longer defenseless. Permit me to say we have a really magnificent army-you saw it yesterday." Within 48 hours of the kibbutz rescue operation, the Israeli army had rolled across the Lebanese border...