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Also at Van Conlandt the women's cross country team extended Coach D. Elston Cochrane-Fikes unbeaten string at Harvard to seven with victories over Rutgers, St John's and Georgetown Cochrane-Fikes has not lost an intercollegiate meet since he took over the women harriers last year...
Whatever the answers to these questions, the Soviets clearly violated international law and custom by using excessive force on an unarmed civilian aircraft. "Of course they'll claim they warned the plane-who'll ever prove otherwise?" notes former CIA Official George Carver, now a fellow at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies. "But let's not be diverted by fine legal minutiae. They had absolutely no right to commit murder." Experts in international law say the families and countries of victims may have valid claims for damages, but no one expects...
...Reagan and most of his advisers, even "second-rate" conflicts, like that in Chad, are worth joining if there is a chance to frustrate the Soviet Union or its client states. William Taylor, a former West Point colonel now at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies, approves of the Administration's eagerness to help fight small, tangentially anti-Soviet battles around the world. But he realizes that the public is not as bully for military adventures as some in the White House and Pentagon. "I think they're fooling themselves," says Taylor, "if they...
...Bradlee, now the executive editor of the Washington Post, had been a Georgetown neighbor and particular chum of Kennedy's. Working then for Newsweek, he would sometimes be asked by his editors to find out for competitive reasons whose face would be on the cover of TIME the following week. Bradlee would ask the President, who would find out and call back. Bradlee got one exclusive story about Kennedy's past personal life, involving a false report of an earlier J.F.K. marriage, when the President agreed to let Bradlee secretly examine for 24 hours all the FBI files...
According to the special counsel's report, Studds first invited the page to his Georgetown apartment, and then later that summer took the boy on a two-week trip to Portugal. The ex-page testified that he bore no ill will toward Studds...