Word: favorities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...delay caused SALT critics in Washington to fear that the Soviets might be trying to shade some nuances in their favor. Senate G.O.P. Leader Howard Baker Jr. warned darkly about the pressures of "deadline diplomacy." But an Administration official insisted that there was no cause for concern. Even so, the two leaders may yet have to settle some of the fine print during their face-to-face sessions this weekend...
...Washington for ratification of the SALT treaty. At a private dinner with six Senators and four Congressmen who are undecided about SALT, he warned that rejection of the treaty would seriously set back détente, which he called "vital for a rational world." Schmidt also spoke strongly in favor of the treaty at two public appearances in the U.S., including one at Harvard, where he received an honorary degree...
Divestment remains a muddled issue. Even U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Andrew Young is not in favor of American companies withdrawing from South Africa, and he believes that they should use their leverage to encourage reforms. Student demonstrators and sympathetic trustees, though, see the issue as moral rather than practical or monetary. When Yale's Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility recently recommended that the college sell $900,000 of stock in the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. (which lends money to the South African government), the committee's statement put the case with remarkable candor: "We recognize that divestiture...
...program? The Administration's wage and price guidelines, the program that business people and wage earners love to hate, has been as dead as Confederate currency since early spring. Last week a federal district court judge in Washington nailed the coffin shut. Judge Barrington D. Parker ruled in favor of the AFL-CIO and nine other union plaintiffs that President Carter had exceeded his authority in promulgating the guidelines. By threatening to withhold federal contracts from companies that violated the guidelines, the judge concluded, the program was coercive and thus "establishes a mandatory system of wage and price controls...
Nevertheless, the Core forced the Faculty to review individual courses to be offered in the basic curriculum over the next several years. The Standing Committee on the Core has adhered strictly to the prescribed regimen, eliminating popular courses such as Fine Arts 13 and Music 1 in favor of more specific, thematic Core courses. Whether or not the courses fit the letter of the guidelines, students may glean some benefits from a meticulous course-by-course review by the Core committee. It is more important, however, that the principles at the heart of the Core continue to be scrutinized...