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...eyes of many analysts, the present crisis was a result of insufficient attention by the Reagan Administration to Middle East problems and repeated Administration weakness in the face of Israeli intransigence. Said Harold Saunders, former Assistant Secretary of State for the Near East: "The Reagan Administration warned Israel in no uncertain terms not to move into Lebanon. Not only did Israel proceed to invade, but it did so at the worst of all possible times from a U.S. standpoint. What does that tell you about Israel's respect...
There is a "tendency on the part of educators to fight the Reagan regime," comments Harold Howe, a former commissioner of education and professor at the Ed School. The tendency arises from a general concern over the current and proposed reductions in aid to education and what Ylvisaker calls the "negative impact on the spiritual leadership side" One official from the DOE assuring that the department is committed to excellence in education, says that this kind of reaction represents "almost a hysteria," unwarranted by the size of the cuts...
...dollars in film rights each day at Cannes," Golan purrs, but "I did better last month at the American Film Market in Los Angeles." Night falls, and for the assiduous epicure, hopes rise: before long he may be amid sparkling silverware and sleek brown shoulders at a dinner party Harold Robbins is throwing for Pia Zadora, the star of a new movie made from his novel Lonely Lady-and one of the year's show-off starlets for photographers. The experiences of one party provide conversational fodder for the next. "Loved Inchon," said one professional gadfly the day after...
...Crimson asked a number of Harvard professors their recommendations for summer reading lists for students caught in this annual dilemma. The responses were predictable and professorial, John Irving. Harold Robbins and Judith Krantz failed to make a single list, while the likes of Eudora Welty, Marcel Proust and Walker Percy made several. So will it be Princess Daisy or Remembrance of Things Past? Everyone from Bernard Bailyn to Otto Eckstein has an opinion. You decide...
...young, have been convinced that they have a right to Social Security payments high enough to maintain a comfortable standard of living despite old age, widowhood or disability, and this right is every bit as inalienable as the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Harold Sheppard, associate director of the National Council on the Aging, has a one-word description of benefits paid now and all increases that may be necessary to keep those payments abreast of inflation. The word is: sacred. And all politicians know that the aged are far more likely to vote than...