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...altogether fair shake. It was suggested to him that more spontaneous chats with journalists might make for a more sympathetic press. "I can't do that," Hart said. "I can't approach you people because then you'll think I'm pandering, trying to co-opt you." He seemed sincerely frustrated. "Sometimes I think I'm living in two different worlds-what I do and what I read I do." Why had the day's news reports, he asked, not mentioned the remarkable size of the crowd the day before in Harrisburg? How about...
Financial and geographical limitations, however, pose problems for Penn. "We have a smaller endowment than Harvard and the house system is only one in a series of living options," Helm says, adding that students may also opt to live in a "high-rise or a regular dorm...
Officially, then, the high-sulfur group is against any new legislation which would mandate reduction in sulfur dioxide emissions. In private, however, the lobby hints that, if push comes to shove, it would opt for legislation requiring the installation of costly scrubbers in coal-burning power plants--thereby obviating the need for low-sulfur coal...
...forces in Europe are an indispensable component. Such a decision might in fact invigorate the conventional arms-reduction talks and in time lead to stability at a lower level. But if Europe should opt for a perpetuation of the present ambivalence or for only a token improvement, then the U.S. will owe it to the overall requirements of global defense to draw certain conclusions. If Europe by its own decision condemns itself to permanent conventional inferiority, we will have no choice but to opt for a deployment of U.S. forces in Europe that makes strategic and political sense. If nuclear...
Should the Soviet leadership opt for age over youth, there was always standby Candidate Konstantin Chernenko, 72, who took Andropov's place on the Lenin Mausoleum during the military parade through Red Square in November and was named chairman of Andropov's funeral committee last week. Chernenko worked his way to positions on the Politburo and the Secretariat largely by serving as an aide to Leonid Brezhnev, and he was thought to have been his boss's hand-picked heir. But he lost out, probably when the military and party colleagues decided to back Andropov. Since then, Chernenko has given...