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...naturally expects. From the beginning he has led a productive, patrician life of unimpeded success. After graduating from Harvard, Nitze amassed a fortune during the Depression as an investment banker. In government since 1940, he oversaw the creation of the Marshall Plan and the NATO Alliance; in the early '60s he helped manage U.S. responses to crises over Berlin and Cuban missiles. Some who know him suggest that Nitze is now driven to achieve an INF treaty as a sort of final professional capstone. Nitze scoffs: "I just don't give that kind of thing any thought...
...White House gave final approvals to the agreement while K School faculty and administrators oversaw the first session in Washington last weekend. Last week contract was an expected formality and is reported to be the first university White House agreement of the kind...
...building of the monument, though a step forward, demonstrates the same problem. Vietnam vets made the plans, raised the money, organized the parade, and eventually oversaw the dedication themselves. No one else would do it for them. It is time, however, for someone else--namely the U.S. public and government--to do a little for Vietnam veterans...
...first posting: Sweden). Involved in the San Francisco Conference of 1945 that founded the U.N., he filled a variety of posts before presiding in 1965 over the first Latin American convention, held in Mexico City, on the dangers of nuclear proliferation. Two years later, he proudly oversaw the signing of the Tlatelolco Treaty. (That document, however, still has only symbolic significance: the two countries most likely to develop atomic bombs in Latin America, Argentina and Brazil, have signed the treaty but have not yet ratified...
...implies incorrectly that students are still actively planning a central third world cultural organization. But College administrators themselves relegated the Foundation to a three-sentence passage in a six-page descriptive letter they sent to the Brown group, according to an official here and the Brown professor who oversaw the writing of the guide. If University Hall wants to push the Foundation, why didn't administrators go out of their way emphasize its goals and initial accomplishments. "On the other hand, while the commission certainly does Harvard no good. It does not nullify the rest of the guide's Information...