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...corner was Saigon's Foreign Minister Tran Van Lam; in another stood Major General Le Quang Hoa, Hanoi's top man at the JMC, chatting amiably with Lieut. General Gilbert Woodward, his crusty American counterpart. "After the first 60 days of the cease-fire are over," Hoa told Woodward, "you must come to visit Hanoi." Woodward guffawed, then glowered at an eavesdropping journalist...
Shortly after President Nixon named former CIA Director Richard Helms as Ambassador to Iran, his Soviet counterpart in Teheran, Vladimir Erofeyev, was at a formal dinner party with Iranian Prime Minister Amir Abbas Hoveida. "What do you think about the United States sending you a spy as ambassador?" Erofeyev asked Hoveida. "Well," replied the Prime Minister coolly, "they are at least sending us their No. 1 spy. You can't be more than...
...acting dean of Radcliffe admission said joyfully this week that the Cliffe is "suddenly a fashion." But her Harvard counterpart glumly scratched his head as his department began evaluating an applicant pool which is 126 prospective students smaller than last year...
...Commission was initially envisioned as a counterpart to the CRR, providing its offices to maintain an atmosphere of trust in which students would find recourse to confrontational protest unlikely. At present, the slanted language of the Resolution makes it impossible for the Commission to serve this function effectively. Still, with the increased prominence given the Commission by the Faculty vote, more pressure can surely be brought to bear--both on the issues of the moment and on the contradictions within the disciplinary process itself...
...Crimson Key was an all-male organization until 1968, when it merged with Shield, its Radcliffe counterpart...