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...Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. "We would be complete fools" to ignore that fact, he said. Conservative Defense Minister George Younger ridiculed Kinnock's new policy as "totally inadequate." Labor M.P. Eric Heffer, a veteran left-winger, charged Kinnock with "backsliding" and moaned that "my worst fears are coming to fruition...
This fall, the talks reached their timely fruition in the publication of the controversial Friday Commission report. The commission, which included 31 of the nation's foremost leaders in higher education, industry and labor, expanded on Bok's ideas. Entitled "A Memorandum to the 41st President of the United States", the report called on the next president to restore the close partnership that once existed between the federal government and higher education...
Even if efforts to attract minorites to graduate schools are successful, they will not reach fruition for about 12 years, when students now beginning Ph.D programs will be up for tenure. And in the meantime, the system risks self-perpetuation because minority students may be reluctant to come to an institution where there are few minority faculty members...
Bringing the unique series of shows to fruition was a prodigious task. "Our naivete helped," says Nightline Senior Producer Betsy West. "Old hands might have said, 'Don't even try.' " Plans were begun last fall, but the assassination three weeks ago of P.L.O. Leader Khalil al-Wazir increased tensions and made it more difficult to line up guests. Among those who refused to appear: P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat and Jordan's King Hussein...
...Madrid still made the decision. A onetime student of De la Madrid's at Mexico City's National Autonomous University, Salinas was tapped for his youth and his allegiance to his former professor's policies. "De la Madrid wants his restructuring of the economy to be brought to fruition," says Susan Kaufman Purcell, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. "After six years, the program is still reversible...