Word: hoffmann
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...were." There was doubtless a strong measure of wishful thinking in that assessment, but many observers felt that the P.L.O. might realize political and diplomatic gains that the Israelis had hardly intended to promote when they stormed across the Lebanese border on June 6. Said Harvard University Professor Stanley Hoffmann: "The P.L.O. is politically better off than ever before...
...Says Van Gordon Sauter, president of CBS News: "We see CNN as a very good service . . . but not of network quality." Adds Richard Wald, senior vice president for news at ABC: "CNN does a nice, straightforward, basic rendition of the news very competently." Outside analysts are more generous. Anthony Hoffmann, a cable analyst for Warburg Paribas Becker Securities, observes, "People talking to a CNN reporter do not seem to think they are talking to the whole world and so they say things they will not say to the networks. You hear more of the words of the people and less...
...class was pleased at the news of the birth, but they were also cheering Bell himself for breaking the unwritten rules of professorial conduct, which preclude any emotional openness in the presence of the students. Bell is down to earth in a way that academic giants like Stanley Hoffmann and Walter Jackson Bate can never hope to be. Few students seem to know or even like the best and brightest of the Harvard faculty. Unflappable, omnicompetent, unremittingly rational, the Harvard prof remains--with a few exceptions--cooly unapproachable...
Looking back at Haig's record at State, Stanley Hoffmann, professor of government at Harvard, concludes that Haig was indeed mainly a creation of Kissinger. "He was Kissinger minus the grand design," contends Hoffmann. "Haig's policies were defined largely by what he learned from Kissinger." Hoffmann thumbnails the key similarities as follows. On U.S.-Soviet relations: "Be tough. But keep negotiating." On Western Europe: "The best way to deal with the Europeans is not to brutalize them." On Central America: "When faced with even the most minute challenge, hit hard." On the Middle East: "A generally...
...Hoffmann cites the Administration's recent willingness to enter into arms-control negotiations with the Soviet Union as Haig's major accomplishment, but warns that "the battle is still going on for Reagan's soul." Hoffmann is not yet certain that Haig "has converted the President to arms control and convinced him that the U.S. must keep talking to the Soviets...