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HARVARD OFFICIALS have displayed this readiness to cancel events in the face of minor incidents several times, most notably during the Kent-Brown incident last year, when several Harvard students attempted a blockade during the South African diplomat's speech. Harvard Police rushed Kent-Brown out of the room as the blockade formed, and Dean Epps ended the speech without an attempt to negotiate with the protestors--even though the students presented no physical threat to the speaker and had left the front entrance to the auditorium clear...
Besides being an accomplished scientist and administrator, Sagdeyev is the Soviet Union's chief space diplomat. He spent more than two weeks in August flying from the U.S.S.R. to Hawaii, New York and Washington to recruit scientists for Soviet missions and to publicize Moscow's space program. His dizzying schedule of speeches, meetings and interviews has forced him to all but abandon his dacha outside Moscow and even his burning passion, chess. In recognition of his achievements at the Soviet Space Institute (IKI), he was chosen to head the Soviets' new Supercomputing Institute and was appointed as Soviet Leader Mikhail...
...past and no one wrote about them," said Alexander Zigic, 23, a Belgrade University student who works on a popular youth radio program. "This is a new openness and accountability. It is a kind of democratization." The question is whether it is coming too late. Said a Western diplomat in Belgrade: "This is perhaps Yugoslavia's last chance to get its economic house in order. If it doesn't, things will get worse and worse and worse...
With money scarce, and goods even scarcer, a diplomat observes, "crooked deals multiply until they ensure that the economic plan can never work." Some people take photos, fix jalopies or do typing on the side; others simply try to resell the goods they manage to procure. The rampant finagling is only encouraged by a bureaucracy with so many hands that none is likely to know what the others are doing: in a Havana telephone directory, the list of ministries takes up 77 pages...
...officials last year. The documents sparked the controversy over the alleged participation in Nazi war crimes of Kurt Waldheim, the former U.N. Secretary-General who is now President of Austria. Opponents of increased access argue that the archives contain unsubstantiated charges that could harm innocent people. Counters an Israeli diplomat at the U.N.: "Secrecy will hurt, not help, those who might be innocent...