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Theoretically, the Administration was correct to hew a neutral line between Iran and Iraq, but changing circumstances call for a defter touch than the U.S. has displayed thus far. Says Richard Helms, a former U.S. Ambassador to Iran (and onetime head of the Central Intelligence Agency): "Now is the time to come to the aid of our moderate Arab friends...
With a cunning apple pie face, Tatum seems typecast as Addie Pray, a preternaturally shrewd waif who hooks up with a conartist, played by her father, Ryan O'Neal. Soon she proves a defter swindler than O'Neal. She also seems more worldly, smoking, cussing and plotting dirty tricks. A pair of rag tag charmers, they sometimes earn their keep hawking Bibles to new widows...
Leawood has three Protestant churches (Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian), one Roman Catholic church and no synagogues. Perhaps 3% of the population are Jewish. There are few black families. Once deeds in Leawood forbade resale to Negroes, Jews-or Arabs. Now Leawood gets nearly the same results by defter means: a local ordinance bars For Sale signs on houses, and Leawood brokers can easily avoid showing to someone they consider undesirable. Tom Leathers remembers that a couple of years ago, Bobby Bell, the Kansas City Chiefs' great linebacker, wanted to buy in Leawood. Bell is black. Leathers telephoned a member...
...Defter Dissertations. A different attack on the problem is to reform the dissertation. Berkeley English Professor Charles Muscatine calls the present Ph.D. "narrow, specialized and constipated. What is needed is a more human and intelligent relationship between the student's training and his thesis." Many dissertations are tedious tomes, running up to a thousand pages and taking two or more years to write-and seemingly almost as long for an outsider to read...
...meetings with his top military advisers, Castello Branco reconfirmed that most of Brazil's military is solidly be hind his government. At one point there was talk of indicting Lacerda, under the National Security Law, for under mining the stability of the government. Castello Branco used a defter maneuver: his telecommunications agency ordered Rio's broadcasting stations to deny Lacerda air time, thus stripping him of his biggest audience. That could be just the beginning. "We will never ignore the complaints and suggestions of those who aided the revolution," Castello Branco vowed in a speech...