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...report, a summary of which was published last week in the Harvard Gazette, the official University publication, says that although Harvard has a progressive affirmative action hiring record overall, there are specific areas of underutilization of women and minorities, notably the number of high-level Black administrators and academicians...
Allied officials leaked word that unless the measure was rescinded, their countries might retaliate by canceling planned high-level visits to East Germany. U.S. diplomats in Bonn denied reports that the responses under consideration could include, as a last resort, a break in relations. But, warned one U.S. diplomat, "talk of it might just sober up the East German government...
...high-level campaign succeeded. Though skeptical that the Post would be revealing any new information to the Soviets, Executive Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee said the paper withheld details because it was "unable fully to judge the validity of the national security objections of senior officials and because of Post lawyers' concerns." The CIA said it was reviewing the story the Post ran, but had not decided whether to seek prosecution. Fear of legal action "was less important to me than the question of whether you do in fact violate national security," Bradlee says. "In my heart, I think the Russians...
...Street boardrooms. Levine had allegedly amassed a total of $12.6 million in illicit profits while working for three investment firms--Drexel Burnham Lambert, Lehman Bros. and Smith Barney--during the past 5 1/2 years. Insider-trading cases come and go like stock-market rallies, but never has such a high-level executive been accused of using privileged information for so much personal gain over so long a period of time. Wall Streeters think that Levine must have been trading tips with a group of moneymen and fear that his arrest may be the first installment in a spreading scandal, especially...
...public hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space, South Carolina Senator Ernest Hollings said of the disaster: "At this particular juncture it seems like an avoidable accident rather than an unavoidable one." Later he charged that it was becoming "increasingly apparent that NASA made a high-level, political decision to go ahead with a morning launch of the shuttle, despite strong objections from Morton Thiokol engineers, who said the temperature was far too cold for a safe launch...