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...about half that total. Then, at the suggestion of National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, the President invited George Ball, an Under Secretary of State in both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, to join the National Security Council temporarily as a special consultant. His job: to prepare a long-range option paper on Iran and the Persian Gulf...
Limited though the discussion may have been, the option of sending in U.S. troops has been considered in the Government-but not favorably. There are contingency planners on both sides of the Potomac River who would have dearly loved to design an American military intervention to prop up the Shah or seize the Iranian oilfields, but they lacked the pretext that they would be protecting Iran from outside interference. "Hell," says one military official, "we would have been the outside interference...
Another referendum question asks whether students want the choice of a 14- or a 21-meals-per-week plan. While a 14-meal plan with only lunches and dinners may have some drawbacks, most universities offer this option. Another item considers the merits of academic credit for drama courses. Credit is appropriate for courses in drama, but not for purely extracurricular activities...
David Sullivan, a member of the association's project coordinating committee, pointed specifically to Harvard's lease--with an option to purchase in five years--of an apartment building at 18-20 Ware St. Sullivan said the lease violates the spirit of the so-called 1975 "Red Line" agreement with the city...
Students may have the option of a 14-meal-per-week food plan beginning next September if the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) approves a plan proposed by its food services subcommittee...