Word: liaison
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...think we got some good kids overall, both academically and athletically," says softball Coach John Wentzell, who serves as the Athletic Department's liaison with the Admission Office...
...unlikely liaison scattered diplomatic sparks in many directions. Washington dispatched roving Ambassador Vernon Walters to Rabat to warn Hassan that an angry Congress might now try to block the $140 million in military and economic aid earmarked for Morocco in fiscal 1985. French President François Mitterrand sent a minister to Algeria and another to Chad; he himself dashed off to Rabat to see whether the new alliance could be of help in settling French differences with Libya in Chad. Even Syrian President Hafez Assad, who has not left his country since a serious heart attack ten months...
...second is nearly gone, and there are plans for a third printing. "We've had to set up an 800 line to handle the requests," burbles the team's attorney and representative, Noel Gould. Among the team's ardent supporters are White House Public Liaison Judi Buckalew, who has asked the athletes to autograph her copy, and California Governor George Deukmejian, who has a framed poster hanging in his Sacramento office. Explains Gould: "The commercial marketplace has finally caught on to what every sorority girl knows: that the best-looking men in the country are water polo...
...nations that are paid-up UNESCO members. Snapped one member of the U.S. delegation: "It looks to us as if he's trying to rewrite the rules late in the game." But before tempers could flare further, the prospect of an amicable settlement was offered by UNESCO Liaison Officer Doudou Diene, who pledged that "ways and means will be found to give back the money...
...liaison, of course, has less to do with amity than with convenience. Hassan seeks Libyan oil dollars to cure his country's economic ills and wants to ensure that Gaddafi does not resume his support of the Polisario guerrillas that have plagued Morocco since 1976. Gaddafi hopes to end Libya's political isolation, especially from its nearest neighbors; he was nettled by his exclusion from a friendship treaty signed by Algeria, Tunisia and Mauritania...