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This fall, the talks reached their timely fruition in the publication of the controversial Friday Commission report. The commission, which included 31 of the nation's foremost leaders in higher education, industry and labor, expanded on Bok's ideas. Entitled "A Memorandum to the 41st President of the United States", the report called on the next president to restore the close partnership that once existed between the federal government and higher education...
...memos." For an American, the word has unpleasant associations--the torpid prose of bureaucrats and administrators, whose spell-check word processors restrict their vocabularies--but one can see how it would appeal to a European intellectual like Calvino. It has a soothing alliteration, and its etymology--an abbreviation of "memorandum," something "to be remembered"--implies history...
...still secret. Cordovez said last week that they would bind Kabul and Islamabad to "noninterference and nonintervention" in each other's affairs, provide for the voluntary return of Afghan refugees, name the U.S. and Soviet Union co-guarantors, and stipulate a Soviet withdrawal within nine months. In a separate memorandum, the United Nations will agree to monitor compliance. At week's end translators were busy turning out copies of the 40-page document in Urdu for the Pakistanis and Pashto for the Afghans, as well as Russian and English...
...Professors Edward Said of Columbia University and Ibrahim Abu- Lughod of Northwestern University, are not official representatives of the P.L.O. Even so, Shamir charged that Shultz had violated a 1975 memorandum of understanding that bars U.S. diplomats from recognizing or negotiating with the P.L.O. until the group acknowledges Israel's right to exist. Said Benjamin Netanyahu, who resigned his post as Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations last week in order to speak out against the encounter as well as run for the Knesset: "The meeting marks a serious erosion in the U.S. commitment not to negotiate with the P.L.O...
Entitled "A Memorandum to the 41st President of the United States," the report urges the next president to return the federal government to its former close partnership with higher education, provide incentives for research to help restore economic competitiveness, and increase federal grants for student financial...