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University spokesmen did, like State Department spokesmen, "condemn and abhor" the racial incident, but Bok, the supposed leader of the University, remained mute. Perhaps the strange confluence of the death threat with the Yale Game influenced his low-key posture. But it should not surprise Bok or any other administrator that minority students grew, and are growing, increasingly disenchanted with the president's failure to take even a cosmetic, symbolic stand. After national circulation of the Klitgaard study, Bok vigorously apologized for any hurt caused by its disclosure, but issued no disclaimer of the report's findings. And these local...
...emergency briefing. Informed of the widespread assault of the "phony" document, the staff was then solemnly told, "The document's contents are harmful if believed true." And so the government began its long seige on the "El Salvador Dissent Paper." In reality, it started off as a low-key affair. State officials told their media contacts (who, not surprisingly, had received the report as well) that the document was undoubtably a fake. After all, it said it was an official dissent paper. Patently absurd, they argued. Dissent papers--usually used by government officers in the field to critique U.S. policy...
...argument on the other side was stronger. Since Kim's death sentence, the U.S., Japan and West Germany have conveyed strong protests and low-key threats to head off his execution. More than that, one day before the Supreme Court upheld Kim's death penalty, President Reagan's formal invitation to Chun to visit Washington was announced. The invitation, which Chun has accepted, will make the South Korean strongman one of the first foreign leaders to be received at the White House since Reagan's Inauguration. It would scarcely do for him to arrive with blood...
...Administration's initial public response was equally low-key. The Iranian reply was "substantive," said State's Trattner. "It warrants close and intensive study. We cannot yet predict whether it will enable the parties to resolve their remaining differences." In fact, the reply was more constructive-at least on its face-than U.S. diplomats had expected. Observed a senior State Department official: "The response included provisions that are advantageous. They offered prescriptions for dealing with the banks that are improvements over our positions...
Michael, 35, is the settled sibling, the family square, and the low-key member of the quartet. Married for six years (to Colleen Sterns, an interior decorator), the father of the only Reagan grandchild (Cameron, 2), the owner of a house in the suburbs (Sherman Oaks, Calif.), he was a cheerful, popular and politically compatible weekend campaigner for his father. He admits, however: "It was a while before I found a direction." A preschool tot when Reagan and Wyman were divorced, Mike was bounced around three secondary schools. He played quarterback well enough to be offered a scholarship by Arizona...