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Nolan, extraordinarily qualified, has been denied promotion in a department that, peculiarly, has no tenured women. Her area of expertise is German economic and social history. Her tenure offers prove that her professional colleagues hold her work in high esteem...
...concerned with your geopolitical strategic considerations. But we are prepared to pay any price and bear any burden in order to defend our own democratic and beneficial civilization. Our families are not averse to suffering in order to preserve the conditions they have grown to love and esteem. Give us grenades, mortars, anti-aircraft gimcracks and opera glasses--we will fight the Russian tanks and jets to the death. Give us the big guns so that we can achieve our legitimate aspirations for self-termination...
...schools yield to economic pressures, the council predicts, the considerable esteem in which the public still holds higher education will decline-especially if the 3,000 American colleges begin competing noisily for students and funds. To make matters worse, the council confirms, "fraud, error and abuse" are on the increase among both students and schools. Defaults on low-interest federally insured student loans have totaled $668 million since 1967. And a report by HEW'S inspector general says the incidence of fraud and abuse in the $3.6 billion spent on five major student-financial-aid programs...
...Laingen dispute also suggested that the Revolutionary Council, which Khomeini had cold-shouldered for several weeks, was rising in his esteem again. Said one insider of the clerical Establishment: "Council members have agreed on the need to distinguish between firmness and rashness. The students should not be allowed to think they are the only reliable interpreters of the Imam's wishes and ideals." That development was mildly encouraging to some Administration officials, who feel that some moderate members of the council are eager for a resolution of the hostage situation. Still, cautioned a White House source, "there...
...things seemed certain last week: 1) foreign policy will loom much larger as a campaign issue than any of the candidates would have predicted two months ago and 2) Jimmy Carter's sudden rise in popular esteem, based on his cool handling of the hostage situation, could fade just about as fast if his response to the twin problems of Iran and Afghanistan is eventually viewed by the voters as being ineffective. Despite the current commanding leads of Carter and Reagan for their party's nominations, 1980 promises to be a highly volatile political year...