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...inter-faculty endeavor is complicated, but I sense that because of this public health problem, people are putting aside their personal ambitions," said Elkan R. Blout, dean for academic affairs...
...mile Kiel-Munich line, but not all systems are go yet. Some politicians and many citizens remain unconvinced that the $1.8 billion needed for the first segment will be money well spent, especially with $1.35 billion already allocated for a high-speed conventional-railway project called the Inter-City Experimental. Transrapid supporters, however, do not think the choice between conventional trains and maglevs should be an either-or one. Says one maglev enthusiast, Heinz Riesenhuber, Minister of Research and Technology: "Sailing ships were improved greatly in the past century, but at the same time steamship development went along and suddenly...
Arias confronted Ortega head on, asking him if he was willing to make concessions, says Peter Hakim, staff director of the Washington, D.C.-based think tank, Inter-American Dialogue. If not, then it would be better for the leaders to go right to dinner and cut the meeting short, Arias said, according to Hakim...
Robles says that the key to Arias' triumph as the Partido de Liberacion de National (PLN) candidate, which came after aggressive inter-party contention in the primary, was his idea that "technologija" had to be brought into the government. His championing of professionalism was a subtle way of emphasizing the same theme, that the days of the older political establishment had been eclipsed by a younger generation...
Criticism is aimed primarily at Elliott Abrams, the State Department's Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs. Despite getting into trouble for misleading Congress about U.S. aid to the contras, Abrams still enjoys Shultz's support. Stubborn and often intolerant of dissent, he fought for what he saw as a worthwhile goal: ousting Noriega. But Pentagon brass, who balked at threatening Noriega with force, say Abrams gave little thought to the other possible effects of his actions. "Nobody disagrees that Noriega must go," says a senior Defense Department official. "We just think State ((meaning Abrams)) is bungling...