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...conciliatory foreign policy address. A few days later, Secretary of State George Shultz met with Gromyko in Stockholm to feel out the Soviets' receptivity to a more flexible strategic missile-limitation plan. The meeting was unproductive. Worse still, the Kremlin kept up a steady drumbeat of harsh anti-Reagan rhetoric...
After years of quiet experience a group of Black faculty and administrators suddenly became aggressive last year, focusing a harsh spotlight on Harvard's minority hiring record. And while the activists have taken care to stress the cooperative facets of their push for affirmative action, the stridency of their statement this year has betrayed a certain impatience with some of their official colleagues...
...Germany. Last week Pravda accused Kohl of supporting German groups that oppose the postwar division of Europe. "The imperialist circles in West Germany," the official Communist Party daily declared, "are now dreaming of the liquidation of East Germany−if not today, then tomorrow." Pravda published an equally harsh attack on General Hans-Joachim Mack, NATO's Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, noting that "European nations remember perfectly well what these typically German generals brought them 45 years ago." There have been no signs that the campaign is about...
...Geraldine Ferraro is going to feel about national politics after this experience. I think the price for participation in high-level politics in our society is very, very high-for both men and women. One lives under continual scrutiny and criticism, much of it unfair. It is a very harsh game, and I do not think women want whatever it is at the end of that particular rainbow badly enough to pursue it. There are already more opportunities for women in politics than there are women ready to pay the price. I do not doubt a woman could be nominated...
...which oversees 385 day care programs. The long-controversial HRA had been under a shadow since last May, when a city investigation found a subagency "seriously negligent" in the deaths of nine Brooklyn children between 1979 and 1981. The HRA director and one of his top deputies resigned after harsh criticism from Mayor Ed Koch...