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Kennedy was not providing an easy target as he started his own maneuvering last week. Edging closer to a formal candidacy by accepting a White House offer of Secret Service protection,* he gave a series of interviews that sounded a more centrist tone than usual. He insisted he did not want to spend any more money than the President, though he would spend it differently: less for defense, more for domestic social programs. He said he would remove both the new aircraft carrier and the MX missile from the fiscal 1980 budget. Though he remained committed to his national health...
...Khan said, "We're talking about a concern for information. That in itself means coordinating the library." He said he chose Harvard and MIT because the United States will lead architecture around the world, and these two institutions "offer strong components in initiating a program...
Convinced that what worked at U/Penn would work at Harvard, Kyriazis approached Henry C. Moses, dean of freshmen, in the spring of 1978. Moses agreed SHS guides might introduce students to house life, but feared the guides would try to offer academic or personal counseling which they were not qualified to provide. "We do not want students doing what they are not supposed to do," Moses announced soon after SHS took shape...
More than anything else, Sadat is anxious to carry out the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty without delay. This would enable him to retrieve the Sinai and its oil wells from the Israelis. He does not wish to get embroiled in any new controversies that might offer the Israelis a pretext to balk on the timetable, which now calls for the return of the areas containing the oil wells by next November. Explained an Egyptian member of the autonomy committee: "If we can establish the sense of permanence and stability we have today in the bilateral relations between Egypt and Israel...
...doing so, the big broadcaster (1978 revenues: $1.8 billion) upset merger talks that had been going on between Macmillan and Mattel, Inc., the California-based toymaker that grew big on sales of Barbie dolls but which is still less than one-third ABC's size. ABC's offer of $335 million for a controlling 55% of Macmillan's shares was just $6 million sweeter than Mattel's bid, but the betting was that it would be accepted...