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...minus one, Pham Van Dong, Army Chief of Staff General Van Tien Dung and other Cabinet members flew to Phnom-Penh to sign a friendship treaty with the new Heng Samrin regime. The absence of Viet Nam's top officialdom from Hanoi may have helped determine the timing of Peking's attack...
Occasionally, Harvard officialdom makes these mothers feel inferior as well. An incident in Gayle's first semester demonstrates how the University often ignores the demands put on student mothers. In one of her classes, an evening hourly was scheduled. Some varsity athletes were permitted to take the test early, but Gail, though she told the head section person she had to be home with her children in the evening, was not. "They couldn't take into account my problem--I wasn't even as good as a jock. They didn't care about my children, as long as I took...
...central committee. But facing him. in a duel that could take two grueling months to play out, is, of all things, a Soviet defector: Victor Korchnoi, 47, a tempestuous, irritable man who narrowly lost to Karpov in a 1974 Moscow match. He blamed his defeat on harassment by Soviet officialdom, and later sought asylum in The Netherlands, leaving behind a wife and child. (He eventually moved to West Germany, then Switzerland...
...these cries of alarm is Proposition 13, a measure that would limit California property taxes to 1% of the market value of all real estate, about one-third of current average rates. If approved by the voters on June 6-a strong possibility-the proposition would cost California officialdom about $7 billion in annual tax revenues at the present level. It would also make it harder to raise other revenues because it would require a two-thirds vote of both houses of the legislature to impose new taxes...
That same evening, the two Presidents helicoptered to the seclusion of nearby Camp David, the Catoctin Mountain retreat where seven previous U.S. Presidents have sought diplomatic privacy with other world leaders. The press was barred, and even Washington's eager officialdom was reduced to a select handful.* Carter and Sadat had some 50 hours available for candid and unfettered discussion...