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Students were somewhat shocked that no one asked for their opinion before any decisions were made. "Most of us see it as a fait accompli handed down by President Bok. Many of us disagreed with that sort of process," says Joe Leitman, who represents the K-School student committee which has debated the issue for several months. Having set their initial indignation aside, students responding to a survey distributed by Leitman's committee were "mostly positive," he says...
With the new agency a fait accompli, interest turned immediately to Carter's choice for department secretary. The good money is on former New Mexico Gov. Jerry Apodaca, a Chicano with a longtime interest in education, who just happened to be poking around Washington's education community this week...
...Both countries seem to be adopting a wait-and-see attitude while making the proper statements to appease the more radical Arab nations." Safran feels that while Saudi Arabia may appear to be siding with the Arab hard-liners against Egypt, "the Saudis will feel compelled to support the fait accompli, despite their carping." If Saudi Arabia becomes vocal in backing Egypt, Safran believes that Jordan's King Hussein might then stop equivocating about whether to endorse Cairo's treaty with Israel...
...successful invasion had been carried out so swiftly that it was a fait accompli before most parties were prepared to respond to it or to propose effective retaliation. Only the Japanese government acted decisively. Tokyo announced that it would delay promised grants and loans of $70 million to Hanoi until the situation became clearer...
...wonder whether the center, under so loose a rein, would truly qualify as an academic enterprise. Asked a faculty critic: "Are we following an industrial model or an academic model?" Such doubts were aggravated by the fact that Hubbard presented the planned center to the faculty senate as a fait accompli, leaving no room for debate. Then, too, there was Fluor's ambiguous role. Said he: "People can say I have selfish interests, and obviously I have some. But I believe any time information is available, better decisions can be made...