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England's Keston College, a research center on Christianity under Communism, reports that 30,000 of the estimated 150,000 Soviet Pentecostalists are seeking to emulate 255,000 Soviet Jews and emigrate. Supporters of the seven claim the State Deparment has been lax in pressing the Soviets, which State denies. U.S. diplomats have tried to talk them into leaving the embassy as the only way to get an exit visa. Meanwhile, the State Deparment objects to a bill by Michingan Senator Carl Levin, co sponsored by 64 other Senators, to improve the seven's circumstances by giving them...
Meese has his weaknesses. He takes on too much work. Although a firm believer in, and drawer of, organization charts, he is poorly organized himself. Moreover, Meese often seems insensitive to political and public relations pitfalls. He has a tendency to hold back when aggressive action is necessary. His lax management of operations, when he gets into that, suggests that he should confine himself to his strong suit: counseling the President. Indeed, Reagan created the troika in the first place partly because good friends persuaded him that Meese could not serve as a single, powerful White House Chief of Staff...
...With a lot of people milling around, it is not difficult for a person to slip into the dining room and go around the back way," Walcott added, saying that measures to prevent such instances are "somewhat lax...
...devising the conflict-of-interest guidelines that it did, then, the Faculty Council had to sail through a very narrow channel. On one side lay the Scylla of lax control over professors which could involve the University in sticky financial conflicts or lure faculty from their teaching commitments; on the other rested the Charybdis of strictures rigid enough to drive away top-notch professors. Whether the council succeeded may not be evident for years, when the commitments that Harvard's faculty make in the next year or so begin to surface. And as Watson suggested, the University may never learn...
While there are both benefits and drawbacks in a strong currency, the overall effects on the U.S. economy are positive. A weak dollar in the late 1970s permitted American companies to grow lax because they rarely had to worry about being undersold by foreign competitors. Now a strong dollar will force U.S. firms to hold down prices and boost productivity both at home and abroad in order to be leaner, tougher and more competitive. William MacKenzie is export manager for a small Los Angeles company that sells household appliances and building supplies to Europe, the Far East and Latin America...