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...Board pushed for an up-or-down vote on the question. Bok's top advisor, Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54, was dispatched to lobby Overseers on why such a vote would be ill-advised. Then the University managed to find an even better plan: to divert the question to a joint committee of the Corporation and the Board. Scheduling difficulties should ensure that the committee's reccomendation on the issue will not be made until next fall...
...twilight hour is sadly indicative of his failed policy in the region. The timing of the deployment with the indictments of Lt. Col. Oliver North and former National Security Adviser John Poindexter may have succeeded in topping these criminal acts in the newspages--but it cannot be allowed to divert attention from the fact that the Administration's policies in the region have controverted public will...
...danger is that the furor will divert attention and resources from the real heterosexual epidemic -- the one raging in the inner city among IV drug abusers, their sexual partners and children. The alarmist prophecies promoted in Crisis may discredit ongoing efforts to control the disease. "This plants the seeds of distrust in a group that the public should be able to look to for answers," argues Mervyn Silverman, former San Francisco public health director. Crying wolf, as Masters and Johnson have done, is no way to fight an epidemic...
...indictment, among other things, charged that North and Secord conspired to divert millions of dollars from the sale of U.S. government arms to the alleged "Enterprise...
...including a review of Harvard's educational programs on South Africa. The educational program seems to be a sound one, having received the approval of Black South African notables such as Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Their approval, however, has been contingent upon it not being used as a smokescreen to divert attention from the question of divestment and that is exactly what the administration will be doing by bringing it up on Saturday...