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At the same time, party conservatives imposed sharp limits on Andreotti's room to maneuver. No arrangement with the Communists could continue beyond year's end, when the Italian parliament is due to elect a new President; among other strict policy guidelines, allegiance to NATO would have to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Pretty Gift | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

The White House has become involved in a maneuver to oust yet another top-level holdover Republican appointee. He is Oakley Hunter, chosen by Richard Nixon as chairman of the Federal National Mortgage Association, known as Fannie Mae, the nation's largest provider of housing finance. As boss of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Feud over Fannie Mae | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

If Kleinfelder gave her squad an intermission tongue-lashing, it had a delayed effect. SMU guard Mary "Downtown" Hill swooshed home three unanswered long-range missiles before All-Ivy standout Wendy Carle answered the rainmakers with a nifty maneuver underneath. The sophomore forward finished with 14 points, several coming on...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: Women Best SMU | 2/18/1978 | See Source »

A HANDFUL OF CUE and ERG members cannot inform all the students; that is why communities have newspapers. It does not matter how many notices these student representatives tack on bulletin boards or how well-organized their publicity sub-committees are organized. Exclusion of the media is a sly and...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Harvard: Behind Closed Doors | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

Of course the Soviets have had their share of intelligence failures. During the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, the KGB failed to detect Israeli preparations for crossing the Suez Canal, and underestimated the maneuver's importance once it was under way. In New Delhi, the resident KGB team concluded that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: KGB: Russia's Old Boychiks | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

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