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...policy when that policy had finally run its course five or ten years later. His overwhelming concern was how well the White House could continue to function as the major force in foreign policy, whether popular opinion would one day rise up and destroy the Presidency as an instrument of diplomatic relations. And when Kissinger finally agreed to go to work for the man whom he had so viciously scorned as a Presidential candidate, it was only on the condition that the policy-making structure be geared to White House predominance...
...Yale Law School and living in an urban commune, Reich has ruled out careers in either regular law firms or most storefront legal-service projects because "they use law as an instrument of confrontation, not conciliation." He talks of "delegalizing" society so that people can resolve conflicts without lawyers?as in no-fault auto insurance systems. To get such ideas across, he has joined law and business students at Harvard and Yale in starting a "public policy union" to work with city officials and state legislators on social problems. He plans to get involved in Senator George McGovern's presidential...
...principal instrument of opposition to Stokes has become the city council. The issue that solidified the division was public housing. Stokes is a strong proponent of public housing (his family lived in a low-income project when he was young), and his belief that such developments should be dispersed throughout the city has divided even the black community. When Stokes announced plans for a low-cost housing project in Lee-Seville, a middle-class black neighborhood, the council blocked Stokes' proposals. An attempt to put public housing into the white, blue-collar west side was similarly blocked...
...students were told to go upstairs to the Faculty Room, where Deans Dunlop and May met them in a few minutes. After introductions, Dunlop asked Carroll S. Dorgan '71-who was holding the tape recorder- "Is that an instrument that...
...instrument that's on, yes," Dorgan replied...