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...negotiating technique was to meet with each envoy separately. Sometimes the emissaries would come twice a day to his spacious 38th-floor office overlooking the East River. The Secretary-General would make an oral presentation to each on a point or two and then ask for comments. Each representative would then communicate with his home government. When the replies were disappointing, the Secretary-General would look for "some conciliatory U.N. formula." His worst fear, he said, was "the danger of a great military incident in the area. I am always wondering whether one of the parties would withdraw from...
...federal appeals court had acted in another case to block the new IRS plans, the Administration asked the Supreme Court to end the impasse. A prompt response was expected, but Friday conference after Friday conference of the Justices went by without any word-until last week's announcement. Oral arguments will probably be heard in the fall...
TULSA. Okla.--Senior women at Oral Roberts University are no longer being held to the usual curfews at midnight during the week and 1 a.m. on weekends. As a special treat, the women will be allowed to stay out 15 minutes later than usual this semester...
...bilingual education and backing away from affirmative action, his views take on political significance. He has been quoted and courted by an array of right-wing politicians "for whom," he says, "I would never vote," and called a "brown Uncle Tom" by minority groups. Commenting on Hunger of Memory, Oral Historian Studs Terkel, a supporter of affirmative action, warns, "I don't want to see the book of an exceptional individual used by others to make a general case." Rodriguez, who now lives simply in a small San Francisco apartment, shares that concern. Says he: "I've always...
...team representing the Divine Light Institute won and qualified for the finals, but the judges unanimously awarded the Best Individual Oralist award to Stone. "We were extremely impressed with both the written and oral presentations in a difficult case," New man said...