Word: goldman
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...just felt it was not a good time in the history of the world to be traipsing around Europe," says Roger J. Kaplan '86, who also won't be going there as he and roommate Arthur D. Goldman '86 had planned. Kaplan and Goldman decided to tour North America instead in light of terrorist attacks which had occurred even before the United States and Libya squared off in the Gulf of Sidra last April...
...didn't want to be heroes," Kaplan says. "Terrorists target places where Americans go." Goldman says his parents' fears, and not his own, will keep him on this side of the Atlantic for the summer. "I wasn't really worried, but they thought it was possible something would happen," he says. Although his parents had offered to help pay for his trip as a graduation gift, after the rash of terrorist incidents they told him they would only help pay for his vacation if he stayed on this continent...
...Soviets' lack of candor struck many observers as part of an ingrained national trait. Says Marshall Goldman, associate director of Harvard's Russian Research Center: "There is a traditional fear and concern within the Soviet Union about panic. After all, mass panic is what set off the revolutions in 1905 and 1917. The authorities have an inordinate fear of the masses running wild...
...button, and we're directly into Goldman Sachs," says Cabot. "A direct line gives time, speed, convenience, and not much more than that...
...bitterly that "our season has been screwed." Last year tourism earned the country $1.1 billion, and Israeli tourist officials had expect ed 1986 to be another big year, with more than 500,000 Americans due to visit, vs. 433,000 last year. Now, says Israeli Tourism Spokeswoman Bonnie Goldman, "we're lucky if we match 1984's figure of 400,000. We're worried and concerned about it." With reason: at a convention of high-risk-insurance agents in Jerusalem last week, only 150 of the 500 scheduled guests actually showed...