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...surge in give-and-take between the superpowers produced at least one official diplomatic stir. Democratic Representative Thomas Downey of New York claimed to find evidence of a possible change in the Soviet stance at the Geneva talks on intermediate-range nuclear forces in Europe. According to Downey, Soviet Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, first deputy chief of the General Staff, told consider group of Congressmen that Moscow might be willing to consider a proposal similar to one discussed a year ago between U.S. Arms Negotiator Paul Nitze and his Soviet counterpart, Yuli Kvitsinsky. That formula, worked out by the two negotiators...
...protest does not improve Harvard or the world, but serves only to placate consciences. We need higher standards, truer ends and better means than that. The Class Gift is a positive means of improvement, and deserves the full enthusiastic support of us all. Stephen J. Keeler '83 Harvard Marshal...
Even Social Democratic Party Leader Roy Jenkins, who would become Prime Minister in the unlikely event of a victory by the centrist S.D.P./Liberal Alliance, dropped his usually temperate mien to blast Thatcher. Jenkins acidly compared her new Tory manifesto to Field Marshal Douglas Haig's message after the disastrous Battle of the Somme in 1916: "Ground gained negligible, casualties intolerable, but press...
...whether by choice or political necessity, maintained a low domestic profile. Now, however, the name of the stooped and often visibly tired former KGB chief is beginning to sprout more frequently on the front pages of Soviet newspapers. Moreover, in a long Pravda article published last week, Defense Minister Marshal Dmitri Ustinov for the first time referred to Andropov as Chairman of the Defense Council. The new title meant that Andropov now holds a post equivalent to commander in chief, thereby occupying two of the three top positions once held by Brezhnev. (The office of President remains unfilled.) Some Kremlinologists...
Anderson's colleagues attribute his success as the University Marshal to his informal manner and sense of humor complemented by an air of sophistication. The combination commanded respect, yet made visitors feel welcome and relaxed. Anderson modestly claims. "I'm not a scholarly man," but those people who have witnessed the former marshal at work--coolly throwing his leg over a chair arm and conversing with the guest de jour--believe that Anderson himself possesses "ambassadorial qualities" of the dignitaries he entertained...