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Although almost 95 per cent of Harvard's work to prepare the architectural design for the new Reza Shah Kabir University (RSKU) is complete, the Iranian government cannot pay the outstanding sums needed to finish, Harold L. Goyette, director of the Planning Office, said yesterday...
...Administration launched an all-fronts lobbying effort. Vice President Walter Mondale, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Pentagon Chief Harold Brown and other Carter advisers phoned every Senator and key Congressman to ask for support and to answer questions. The White House was also considering asking big businessmen and big farmers for endorsements. Said a White House aide: "It is going to be hard for Senators to raise hell if the power structures in their home states say that China is a good deal." The opposition is hurt further by the fact that Carter is backed on China by some prominent...
...DIED. Harold D. Lasswell, 76, social scientist who applied the principles of psychology to the study of politics; in New York City. Having undergone psychoanalysis, Lasswell used Freudian insights to analyze the interplay of power and personality. A professor at the University of Chicago and later at Yale Law School, he wrote numerous books, including Politics: Who Gets What, When...
Alex Haley's book about his black heritage, Roots, won him a Pulitzer Prize, $2.6 million in hard-cover revenues alone, and his share of a much acclaimed television series. But Harold Courlander, 70, a white novelist living in Bethesda, Md., believed the book had more roots than Haley was willing to acknowledge. In Federal District Court in Manhattan, he accused Haley of plagiarizing passages from his 1967 book, The African. Courlander demanded that Haley turn over to him more than half the profits from Roots...
...size would not honor Carter's NATO pledge of last spring to increase U.S. defense expenditures by 3% above inflation. Last week, however. Carter repeated that promise, suggesting that he could end up overruling the recommendation of his own budget advisers when he meets this week with Defense Secretary Harold Brown for an intensive look at fiscal 1980 military spending...