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...here at Harvard. It will, hopefully, encourage many people, straight and gay, to confront their feelings and come to terms with them--so that there will be fewer gays going through the emotional gymnastics necessary to life in the closet and fewer paranoid and stereotype-ridden straight people to contend with while coming, and being...
...encouragement among hizzoners is limited indeed. The mayors contend that Carter has fallen short of his pledge to their annual conference in 1976, when he declared: "America's No. 1 economic problem is our cities, and I want to work with you to meet the problem of urban America." Griped Denver's McNichols: "We have no mayors involved in the Administration. We're out of things, and I think that's a mistake...
Sadat also had to contend with unexpected opposition inside his own government. Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy, who had thought that Sadat's visit to Israel was a long-range proposal rather than an immediate prospect, resigned when the trip was suddenly scheduled. "I am firmly against it," Fahmy told TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn in Cairo. Sadat immediately offered Fahmy's job to Egypt's second-ranking diplomat, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Mohamed Riad. But he resigned also, in what began to resemble an Egyptian Saturday Night Massacre. Sadat then named Butros Ghali, a member of Egypt's Coptic...
...struggling state-owned Computer Maintenance Corp. could service the IBM equipment in the country without difficulty; after all, that should not be beyond a country that has produced an atomic bomb, nuclear power plants and, even more to the point, 100 of its own computers. The Indians also contend that IBM's departure could open the way for competition among rival computer firms, domestic and foreign, anxious to see their products in the Indian market...
...curse the bad breaks and the rotten luck all you want, but the competition doesn't get any easier. Each year there are heavies like Princeton and UMass to contend with, Providence has recruited another boatload of Irish hordes, and perennial top guns such as Kurt Alitz of Army and the Flora brothers combine to make life exciting, if also often miserable, for the Crimson...