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...Friday, finally, after a NATO Council meeting in Brussels, Carter publicly announced that he was not scrapping the bomb-but not putting it into production either. Instead, he postponed his final decision on full-scale production. At the very least, the President was keeping open his options while determining not only what effect the deployment of the bomb would have but also what the Soviets might give up in exchange for cancellation of the weapon. Nonetheless, the uproar, and Jimmy Carter's response to it, raised unsettling questions about the way he makes important decisions and conducts foreign policy...
...flight with the tough-talking general to Goose Bay in Labrador. Jones' concern turned out to be justified. LeMay walked unexpectedly through a door in the C-97, and a startled flight engineer dropped a hatch, which hit the general on the head. Next a crewman guarding another open hatch was distracted just as LeMay approached, and the commander fell into the hole, suffering scratches and bruises. Finally, LeMay was walking forward in the aircraft, lighting his ever present cigar, when someone unintentionally slammed a door in his face. "I think they're trying to kill me," LeMay...
...cronies have made the decisions and they certainly have not been all-knowing nor all-wise. The very types of abuses and unethical procedure which Rorvik cites as dangers of cloning are prevalent in Darwin's work and are likely to happen again as long as methods are not open to scrutiny by the public and by colleagues. For example, Rorvik's claim in the book that a millionaire without an heir can be considered a suitable subject for cloning is, at the very least, questionable...
...Corporation planned to use Monday's open hearing to put its finger on the pulse of student opinion regarding the recently released report of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR), the verdict seemed clear by the end of the stormy, four-hour meeting...
President Bok and Dean Fox told members of the Ad Hoc Committee Against the Core Curriculum yesterday that the process by which the Faculty is considering the Core Curriculum has been open, especially to students...