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Several professors and administrators said yesterday that Rosovsky's presence as a possible candidate threatened to hinder the search process by making many at Harvard ignore other potential candidates. They said his public announcement clears the way for others, particularly younger and less well-known contenders, to enter the field...
...measured one. He argues that KGB leaders should be barred from political leadership and, perhaps tongue in cheek, that the party might have to be refused registration because it advocates a dictatorship (of the proletariat), which is illegal. But he has spoken up for Gorbachev, saying "Let's not hinder the efforts of this President who pursues a policy of democratic renewal...
...economist by training, the President-elect, who will take office on Aug. 7, also insists that the U.S. do more to help win the drug war. He complains that unfair tariffs on legitimate exports like coffee and flowers hinder efforts to squelch the drug trade. "The U.S. has to understand we don't want their troops," he says. "We want to be treated fairly as a trading partner...
...Barbara J. McNeil, who chaired the conflict-of interest committee, says she does not expect the policy to hinder new research...
Also sharing this view is Brockett, who says that "what one often finds is that an overly specialized education serves you well for the first few years but sooner or later engineers reach a point where poor communications abilities begin to hinder the development of their careers...