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South Africa administers mineral-rich Namibia (pop.: 1 million, including 100,000 whites) under a 1920 League of Nations mandate that the U.N. formally revoked in 1966. Since then, Pretoria has had to fight a low-key guerrilla war against some 8,000 members of the Marxist-dominated and Soviet-armed South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO). South Africa values Namibia as a buffer zone against Marxist Angola, a SWAPO haven. With 20,000 troops in Namibia, the South Africans have launched sharp punitive raids against SWAPO camps in Angola...
...Marin County, across the bridge from San Francisco. He loathes Los Angeles ("Hollywood doesn't care about film; they live to make deals") and does not like to direct. He runs his Lucasfilm operation tightly but benignly. His top executives are often film-school graduates and always knowledgeable, low-key, untemperamental. They have to be smart since...
...formation--and subsequent development--of Harvard Real Estate Inc. is a classic story about a changing university. For decades, Harvard's non-academic holdings--homes, apartment buildings, stores and offices--were managed in a low-key, almost offhand way. The University Housing Office nominally ran the buildings; in practice, responsibility for the structures was largely given over to private contractors like Hunneman and Co., which managed the properties. Harvard was anything but an aggresive landlord--"I remember seeing one house, right on the edge of the Square, renting for $200 a month. This was a house, this was 1978, this...
...office of Terry Deal, associate professor of Education. The maxim might provoke sarcastic giggles in the halls of Langdell or Baker, where conformity is a revered tradition, but at the Graduate School of Education, the poster seems to reflect the general sentiment of students, faculty, and administrators. From its low-key plans to shift its emphasis to the individual school and school leadership, to the clubby amblance of happy hours at its student cafe, the Ed School belies the image of the anxiety-ridden Harvard graduate school...
Leebaert, a defense policy consultant to the Republican party who worked on Reagan's national security transition team,-'escribed his visit as a low-key effort to keep channels of communication open and stressed that he was not officially representing the U.S. government on his trip and did not carry any official messages...