Word: interational
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the real reason? Italians suspected that the French President did not want to come to Rome lest he appear to be paying court to his hosts-a posture that would obviously be unacceptable for a man with Pompidou's ambition to be Europe's primus inter pares. Nevertheless, Leone and Andreotti did manage to come up with a sort of movable Chequers that brought Pompidou to three handsome villas in the Tuscan hills near Pisa-one for a lunch with Leone, one for the "friendly and private talks," and one for a night's lodging. Pompidou...
There are other weak links in Mills's tale, most notably Det. Butler. She is a gorgeous, ambitious and tough female cop who is just too surreal in her myriad attributes. Also, Mills employs an inter-Departmental report on the Lockley case as the vehicle for his story. He includes office memos, tapes interviews by the internal security office, and other "obtained" narratives such as a magazine article on Butler that never saw print. But despite his care in sticking to the format of a report, Mills slips into a trap posed by his own tight prose: no transcripts ever...
...recent interview. Bok described how his preconceptions of the job have altered with experience. He admitted that faced with Harvard's tiers of academic bureaucracy and its inter-disciplinary jealousies, he has found the implementation of academic change more frustrating than he expected...
...also something of a test, for the talks are the key to his policy of East-West détente. Brezhnev does not have an election in the fall -but he would face an even quicker verdict from his colleagues in the Politburo, of which he is primus inter pares, if the talks were a failure...
Riding an impressive nine-game win streak Harvard's 14-1 baseball team takes on an unusually strong MIT squad today in a continuation of a long inter-city baseball rivalry...