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...political issues in question to be discussed and decided by some process of University-wide debate and decision. The name of the University, not the names of individual teachers or students, is used to further political activities with which some of us passionately disagree. It is used in faraway countries and in ways that students and teachers have not chosen and cannot...
...already rolling off the presses on a Sunday five weeks ago when the exiled Shah of Iran quietly boarded a plane in Panama for his newest sanctuary in Egypt. Normally, such a late-breaking development would have to go unreported in those copies of the magazine produced in faraway Hong Kong. But no more. Only a week earlier TIME had begun transmitting its pages to the Far East at lightning speed via RCA'S Satcom II and the Comsat Intelsat IV, communications satellites some 20,000 miles above earth. Supplanting a dizzying combination of Hong Kong-bound planes, couriers...
...pray with them in a service presided over by saffron-robed monks who later feted their former ruler with cakes and tea. The Prince, who is in the U.S. to generate support for a neutral Cambodia, is also visiting refugee groups to see how they fare in a faraway land. His estimate: "We are grateful to the U.S., but those who are displaced more than anything would like to be able to return to their homeland...
London calling to the faraway towns...
...could have predicted the outcome of the 1980 race for the G.O.P. nomination ? On the eve of the Oregon primary, George Bush stopped in the middle of his 2,735th campaign speech and, with a faraway look in his eyes, wandered outside. He said he wanted to enjoy the scenery. Earlier, Howard Baker returned to the Senate, claiming he would rather push a dozen energy bills through Congress than endure another primary. Ronald Reagan went back to making movies because there were fewer changes of scene; John Connolly found it more restful to teach Middle East relations at New York...