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...Moscow's mood swings were carefully monitored by newsmen from other members of the Warsaw Pact, who adjusted the tone of their reports accordingly. The trench-coated cadre kept watch on the summit press center's bulletin boards, which displayed the latest dispatches from the government news agency TASS. Declared Boris Tchakarov, correspondent for the Sofia daily Zemedelsko Zname (Agrarian Banner): "I want to see how TASS is writing about events." In the East bloc news game, not only do you get no extra points for scooping the big guys, you might lose some...
...meeting with a Soviet leader and threatened to undermine his negotiating credibility. Reagan was furious when he learned that a letter from Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, urging him to hang tough on arms control, had been leaked to the New York Times and the Washington Post. The President's mood did not improve after an unidentified White House official accommodated newsmen by replying to a question as to whether the leak was an attempt to sabotage the U.S. bargaining stance: "Sure...
...endorsed by the synod, the fact that it was even voiced underscored the frank atmosphere of the session. So did speeches by two archbishops who asked that the church rethink its ban on Communion for divorced Catholics who remarry. Pope John Paul helped establish the synod's forthright mood with an opening homily that avoided touching on specific issues; it seemed clear to Vatican observers that the Pope was presenting the synod participants with a blank page on which to express their thoughts freely. Godfried Cardinal Danneels of Belgium, who was assigned to summarize official reports for the meeting, told...
...market has been in no mood to listen to words of caution, even from well-known seers like Joseph Granville. When Granville issued his famous "sell everything" recommendation on Jan. 6, 1981, the Dow dropped 23.8 points in a single day. This year Granville issued The Warning, a book predicting a stock-market crash comparable to the disaster of 1929. Since the book appeared in September, the Dow has climbed 222 points. --By Charles P. Alexander. Reported by Raji Samghabadi/New York
While Harvard's administration suffered through its embarrassment last week, the leadership at another Ivy League school, Columbia, was in a festive mood over the elevation of Barbara Aronstein Black from professor of legal history to dean of the law school. Black, 52 and the mother of three children, succeeds Benno C. Schmidt Jr., who in December was named president of Yale. Her promotion marks a significant academic milestone; she becomes the first woman ever to head one of the nation's blue-ribbon law schools. "She's a woman for all sea-sons," proclaimed Columbia President Michael Severn, calling...