Word: notes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was one ominous note in Yugoslav Foreign Minister Miloŝ Minić's speech of welcome to the 150 delegates who assembled in Belgrade last week for the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Wishing the dignitaries a pleasant stay, Minic warned against "sinister forces" that oppose detente and engage in "propaganda campaigns" and "terrorism...
...article last April that Raoul probably was Ray's brother Jerry, who works at a country club near Chicago. They base that theory-a matter of pure conjecture-on the sequence of Ray's various mentions of both Raoul and his brother in these accounts. They also note that Jerry much later became a driver and bodyguard for J.B. Stoner, of Savannah, Ga., a racist who publishes the National States Rights Party's ultra right-wing Thunderbolt magazine. The implication is that King's murder was some kind of far-right conspiracy...
...Kremlinologists note that the CIA failed to anticipate the sharp Soviet rejection of President Carter's sweeping arms-limitation proposals, carried to Moscow by Secretary of State Cyrus Vance (the State Department itself should have foreseen this). Nor did the agency predict the political demise last month of Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny. Carter was annoyed at the CIA's failure to forecast the Likud coalition's upset victory in last month's Israeli election. In China, the CIA seemed surprised by the rise of Chairman Hua Kuo-feng, the vilification of Madame Mao and the rehabilitation...
...committee-type program that awards degrees but which would lack the status of a full-fledged department, charges that Rosovsky has emphatically denied in the past. Rivera voices the fear that Rosovsky will undertake a full-scale review of Afro in the near future; such a review would note the steadily decreasing numbers of undergraduates concentrating in the department, and Rivera asserts that the University might use these statistics to recommend a change in Afro's status to a committee program structure. He and other concentrators fear that the University in coming years will try "to shut Afro down...
...possible misconceptions about Harvard life may also explain why Harvard enjoys more recruiting success in some sports than others. Some sports, coaches note, need less of a hardsell than others, and therefore Harvard is able to get by with its low-key approach. Kevin Mackey, basketball coach at Don Bosco Technical High School in Boston, says "suburban sports" such as football and tennis are more likely to attract students who are interested in the long-term benefits of an Ivy League education. Other athletes need to be sold harder, he says: "Basketball, for instance, with few exceptions, is a game...