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...crisis began last Sunday, at a time when relations between the U.S. and Iran were, in the words of former Foreign Minister Ibrahim Yazdi, "lukewarm but improving." Only three days earlier, Prime Minister Bazargan had held a cordial 90-minute meeting with National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski in Algiers, where both men were attending the 25th anniversary celebration of the start of the Algerian war of independence from France. The Iranians had long since resumed U.S. oil shipments, which had been disrupted by strikes and fighting earlier in the year. The National Iranian Oil Co. (NIOC) is now selling about...
...Asia and in Indochina, ever more perfidious means of aggression and expansion are being used, namely by sowing discord, meddling in the internal affairs of others, fomenting coups and even by using intermediaries to practice armed aggression and military occupation." Accompanying Hua, Chinese Foreign Minister Huang Hua offered some lukewarm support for SALT II. Claiming that China is "not opposed to detente," Huang said: "We are not opposed to such discussions or agreements. They could possibly make sense...
There will be receptions for parents in the Harvard Union, which they will undoubtedly want to attend. Parents go for that kind of thing; they love walking around Harvard Yard and babbling over lukewarm coffee about how classy it all is--down to the elite roaches in your bathroom sink. They really mean it when they say it's your school; they think you own it. "Your library is so magnificent!" they squeal. Or, "It says in the paper that a Harvard professor just testified at a Congressional hearing. Aren't you proud?" To which one replies "shift...
Like its immediate predecessors, the Carter Administration has been lukewarm to space. Only last year, on the occasion of the space agency's 20th anniversary, it issued a declaration that dampened enthusiasts who think of space in terms of what Princeton's visionary physicist Gerard O'Neill calls the High Frontier, a place where mankind can establish permanent settlements, using sun power for fuel and mining the moon and the asteroids. Said the White House coldly: "It is neither feasible nor necessary at this time to commit the United States to a high-challenge space engineering initiative...
Judith Walzer, assistant dean of the College and a committee member, adds that a concentration in women's studies faces the practical obstacles of lukewarm Faculty support and few course offerings. Forming a concentration now is "putting the cart before the horse," she says...