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...next train through to Cambridge isn't scheduled to leave until the next morning. The sooner the better for him; he does not want us "hanging on and hanging on." He orders us out of the house, then goes to bed. We take him seriously and make plans to depart. Nonsense, we are told by his granddaughter, he doesn't really mean it, Tomorrow he will be fine, he won't even remember what he said. Still, we are uncertain. It seems ungrateful to stay in someone's house after he tells you to leave. Besides, we are afraid...
Thus planeload by sweltering planeload did the remaining 1,500 Soviet personnel and some 45 Cuban comrades depart Somalia, one of the Kremlin's oldest foreign-aid footholds in black Africa. As one group was preparing to leave, an American Air Force 707 landed, bearing a U.S. congressional delegation on its way to lunch with Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre. The delegation's long-scheduled arrival was sheer coincidence, to be sure, but the symbolism was unmistakable...
...spokesman for Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, said yesterday that the administration is still considering whether to depart from Harvard's policy of keeping records confidential for 50 years...
...agreement could lead to bloodshed and the commitment of U.S. troops. General George S. Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, summoned 75 retired generals and admirals to a meeting to drum up support for the treaty. Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Robert Strauss, about to depart for trade talks in Tokyo, was rerouted to Capitol Hill, where his yarn-spinning charm was put to work on wavering Congressmen...
...smile. We depart...