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This hardly means that unanimity is about to link the allies forevermore?or for a week. As Secretary of Defense Harold Brown told TIME: "To us, allied behavior sometimes is going to be annoying, as our behavior is sometimes annoying. Allies will sometimes complain that we are not leading, and sometimes complain that we are twisting their arms. There is no action that we can take that will ever allow us to be totally free of both complaints. That's just...
...mission was badly conceived and badly executed, even on a technical military level. If the helicopter had landed successfully in the desert, what would the soldiers have done in confronting a sprawling embassy compound in which the hostages are widely dispersed, and guarded by 150 armed Iranian militants? Harold Brown will not tell; we can only speculate that the plan involved a considerable amount of bloodshed, and that the safe return of the hostages was no more than tentative. Moreover, the operation can only further confuse our European allies, who just recently agreed to aid an American posture of restraint...
...from his ability to teach, but "primarily form his stands on controversial issues." While at the Law School, as a professor and then dean, Bok had actively promoted affirmative action, taken a strong stand against the war in Cambodia, and flown to Washington to voice his opposition to G. Harold Carswell's nomination to the Supreme Court. He boasted the record, as colleagues uniformly described it, of a "good liberal...
Should companies add more "public" directors, as demanded by powerful leaders, from Ralph Nader to Chairman Harold Williams of the Securities and Exchange Commission? Yes, if these outside directors add a new dimension of thinking, expertness and dedication to the corporation; but no, if they are merely tokens or single-issue obstructionists who would block rather than promote corporate initiatives and company welfare...
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Harold Williams told the Rosenthal subcommittee that the SEC was investigating the relationship between the Hunt family and Bache Group Inc. Bunker Hunt and his brother own 6.5% of Bache, and did much of their trading through the firm. The brothers, for example, failed to disclose to the SEC, as required by law, that they owned more than 5% of a publicly traded company...