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Among the faculty back at Harvard, most were somewhat less frantic, says Adam B. Ulam, the director of the Russian Research Center. The foreign policy expert "personally was rather skeptical of war breaking out, but there was a great deal of discussion and concern. "The day after Kennedy's quarantine speech, two professors sponsored a Quincy House foreign affairs table and 300 worried students attended. In the ensuing discussion, which focused solely on the Caribbean situation. Professor Stanley H. Hoffmann pointed out that the blockade gave the Soviets "face-saving options" and that an American invasion of Cuba would "push...
TIME Staff Writer Kurt Andersen wrote the main story after visiting most of the same institutions Leifer had photographed. Says Andersen, "I have never encountered an issue about which there is so much basic agreement on what is wrong and on what ought to be done." He had the expert help of Reporter-Researcher Alain Sanders, who has a degree from Columbia University Law School. Sanders saw his assignment as a "welcome chance to go beyond the minutiae of law and to see how the legal system affects people at its point of greatest impact...
...result was a speech that, for all its expressions of sympathy, clashed with Israeli policy more openly than any other U.S. initiative since the Eisenhower era. The specific ideas in it were not new; indeed they almost mirror the expert consensus on the necessary and the possible that has evolved in recent years. But the President went further than any of his predecessors in embracing a broadly defined concept of Palestinian autonomy as a goal that the U.S. should promote. His view that the West Bank and Gaza should be linked to Jordan was another proposal that...
...year for the first time there were more known cases of business spying than of political espionage. In the U.S., thefts of secrets ranging from technological breakthroughs to mailing lists now cost American firms up to $20 billion annually, according to August Bequai, a Washington lawyer and leading security expert. Says he: "Little companies steal from big companies. Big companies steal from little companies. Everybody steals from everybody...
Damaging information can leak out of any part of a company, from the mail-room to the executive suite. The motive for some informants is money, while for others it may be a desire for revenge. "That former vice president can really zap you," says Industrial Espionage Expert Bequai. Computer programmers are particularly rich sources of secrets because they handle massive amounts of data. Salesmen also spread tidbits as they make their rounds, gossiping and exchanging news...