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...spends eight hours a day in there being frustrated," says an aide, pointing to Secretary of State George Shultz's wood-paneled inner office. Frustration, of course, has long been an occupational hazard at the State Department, but Shultz has recently had more than his share. Not only on Central American questions but also on arms control and Middle East policy, Shultz has been losing influence to National Security Adviser William Clark and other hard-line presidential advisers...
...necessary but less effective, since the Japanese language not only is difficult in itself but represents a quite different concept of speech. Anthropologist Masao Kunihiro notes: "English is intended strictly for communication. Japanese is primarily interested in feeling out the other person's mood." Misunderstandings are a constant hazard. At one top-level conference, for example, President Nixon asked for a cut in Japanese textile exports, and Prime Minister Sato answered, "Zensho shimasu," which was translated literally as "I'll handle it as well as I can." Nixon thought that meant "I'll take care...
...London Bureau Chief Bonnie Angelo, who reported on this week's cover subject in both campaigns"In 1979 I was with a group of political scientists and journalists, and when someone said, 'She can win the election, but can she lead the country?,' no one would hazard an unqualified yes. Four years and a landslide later, that doubt seems incredible" Since Thatcher assumed high office, Angelo has chronicled her activities from No. 10 Downing Street to the Great Hall of the People in Peking Says Angelo: "I have watched with fascination her emergence...
According to Bruce Kaliser, chief hazard geologist for the Utah department of natural resources, the soil on mountains in the area is supersaturated because of an abnormally high winter snowpack's melting under suddenly warm spring weather. Torrential rains have further loosened the soil, which has been tumbling down into the canyons, creating an earth dam. As water builds up behind the dams, it is only a matter of time before the unstable materials start to give way and a mud slide is born...
With the exception of the fire hazard, however, student safety has not been a major problem as Harvard reconstructs. Undergraduate life was made different when construction equipment began to dominate sidewalks and landscapes. But the long-term benefits apparently make the unwelcome wake-up calls and the drastic change in scenery more tolerable. Says Davis: "If the youth of America can not stand the noise of someone pounding a nail 100 feet away, the nation has lost its fiber...