Word: exception
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Highly intelligent and with a generous share of ego, Brzezinski does not suffer fools easily. He gives the impression he does not think there are many people around with better ideas than he has - except for one notable exception: Carter. Asked from whom Brzezinski seeks counsel, one aide replied: "He listens to the President...
Under a 1975 West German-Yugoslav extradition treaty, 81 people have been exchanged. Political prisoners, however, fall into a shady area. Except for crimes against human life, such as murder, acts considered to be politically motivated are not extraditable offenses. That leaves Bonn in a quandary. Turning over political prisoners would be improper. But not turning over prisoners that Belgrade wants could delay or possibly prevent the return of the R. A.F. four...
...wife, the veterans Sylvia Sidney and Lew Ayres are present as early victims of the devil's ire. Damien and his cousin, who seems to represent heaven-inspired goodness, are played by Jonathan Scott-Taylor and Lucas Donat. In the end, Damien survives, for no good reason except the producers' hopes to squeeze one more sequel out of him. It is, of course, possible that they are Beelzebub's agents in a new strategy of boring us so profoundly that we will turn to evil to cheer ourselves...
...respond to John's criticism, the others break out in praise for Harvard and Lowell House. Then John says, "They got the system in this House worked out real nice. I can stay in the back when the kids come, and I don't have to get them anything, except when something runs out or breaks down...
...regard the University as being in the real estate business for profit. Although most rents are at the market level, Harvard owns an estimated $8 million worth of tax-exempt property in Cambridge, and makes a $507,000 in-lieu-of-tax payment. The situation in Boston is similar, except that Harvard pays no in-lieu-of-tax payment there and the value of exempt property is twice as high--an estimated $16 million. Harvard has not yet decided whether the corporation will handle Boston properties. The most publicized complaints, from Boston Fair Share and Cambridge community groups, focus...