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...central issue, relations with the Soviet Union, there has been what one top diplomat called "a whiff or two of movement" from Moscow of late. But the movement seems isolated in such secondary areas as a human rights agreement at the marathon conference in Madrid (see WORLD). In the far more important arena of nuclear-arms talks, new details of a Soviet proposal seemed to emphasize rather than ease a continuing deadlock. In the Middle East, U.S. diplomacy has stalled severely. Late last week the White House had not even received official confirmation that Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin would...
...marathon secret negotiations started in April with a visit by Alleghany Corp. Chairman Fred Kirby II to American Express at the invitation of Chairman James Robinson 3rd and President Sanford Weill. The talks progressed into July and were partly conducted by radio telephone between Kirby's isolated summer retreat in the Adirondacks and American Express headquarters in Manhattan. At one point, Kirby used a pay phone in a country hotel to call Weill, who told the Alleghany boss he was not "going to negotiate a billion-dollar deal on the telephone." Thus the executives met face-to-face...
Correspondent Mary Cronin, reporting her first British gen eral election, marveled at the intensity of the four-week campaign, an eye-flick in duration compared with the marathon U.S presidential quadrennial. "One day," Cronin says, "we caught up with Labor Leader Michael Foot at noon industrial Midlands. In the next four hours, he dropped in at local party headquarters, gave speeches at shopping centers, talked to a university students' gathering and held a press conference, all followed by a speech that night in Coventry and a radio interview...
...donating our values to the kids for them to pick up," Bechtold says. Judith Y. Shields '84 chairman of the active Currier committee, points to the $10,000 her House donated to the Jefferson Park housing project in the Fitzgerald neighborhood--the proceeds of the winter's dance marathon--as a major project...
...same time, Elliott was listening carefully to campus debate and engaging friends like Wohl and Mensah in marathon dining hall symposia on contemporary events. What I saw was a very deep and honest, not Chie, belief that there is deep injustice in the world and a great need for social change on many levels, that government has a necessary role to play, he says. "My previous assumptions did not admit that need." His sympathies still lie with Reagan rather than Tip O'Neill, with individualism rather than collectivism. "On most issues that are raised by undergraduate political leaders. I have...