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Still, such tough-sounding language might give way to calls for compromise if there is no sign of progress in Geneva. U.S. officials pointed out that the East bloc has been talking about a nonaggression pact for more than 25 years and dismissed the Prague plan as a propaganda exercise. The Warsaw Pact proposal, however, was tailored not for the Pentagon but for public opinion in Western Europe, where peace protests are expected to spread as the NATO missile deadline approaches. If Reagan did not dismiss the Prague offer out of hand, it may be because Administration officials are becoming...
There is a sharp division of opinion in Washington as to how the U.S. negotiators in Geneva should be instructed to reply. The Pentagon counsels simply saying no and insisting on Reagan's zero-zero plan. Defense officials dismiss Andropov's bid as a mere propaganda ploy. They fear that if the U.S. makes a counterproposal, Moscow will ask European governments to delay installation of the American missiles while negotiations continue, then stall the talks endlessly, in effect blocking deployment of the Pershing IIs and cruises without yielding anything...
...federal judge recently denied Harvard request that the court dismiss a tenure complaint filed by former assistant professor Ephram Isaacs, saying the case raises "genuine disputed issue of material fact...
Still, many elected officials are wary about pushing such bills through the statehouse. Wisconsin Governor-Elect Anthony Earl opposes the bill that will come before the state legislature this winter, calling it unenforceable. Says Earl: "I think there would be widespread disregard for a change to 21." Some educators dismiss raising the drinking age on the grounds that it fails to address the teen-age "attitude" problem. Says Faye Gordon, coordinator of a Brookline, Mass., project in the public school system that uses such devices as a quiz show called You Bet Your Beer to persuade teen-agers...
Experts are still reluctant, however, to dismiss OPEC as a price-setting force. Says Lichtblau: "This is not the end of OPEC. It has weakened since the end of 1981, but the price of oil is still substantially above what it would be in a free market right now." Walter Levy, a top oil consultant, believes that adversity could save the organization. Says he: "If the fear of Allah enters OPEC members, maybe they will say that it is better to work out a program among themselves rather than face a free-falling oil price that leads to revenue losses...