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...building on Boylston Street represents a major footstep for Bok. The space there will almost double the level of activity that the school had last year in Littauer Center. A five year plan calls for student enrollment to reach a peak of 500 and the addition of seven executive programs (short intensive programs for people already high on the ladder of government) to the three now in existence. The faculty will increase from 30 to 50 members and the number of research programs from one (the Center for Science and International Affairs...
From a bunker near the presidential palace-which itself came under fire from misdirected Syrian guns aiming at Christian strongholds in the hillsides-Sarkis made desperate efforts to invoke a truce. He announced a plan to replace the apolitical "Cabinet of technocrats" that has ruled Lebanon for two years with a new government composed of Christian and Muslim leaders. By week's end Sarkis, who had earlier declared that Lebanon was "on the verge of collapse," had been rudely rebuffed by virtually every important faction in Lebanese politics. Declared former President Camille Chamoun, Christian leader of the National Liberals...
International efforts to halt the fighting were similarly troubled. In the same curt tones with which he had rejected a U.S. plan for bringing peace to Lebanon two weeks ago, Syrian President Hafez Assad rejected a French proposal for installing a United Nations buffer force between the warring sides. "It is not logical that a buffer should be established between troublemakers and mutineers on the one hand and the legitimate forces on the other," snapped Assad, whose troops in Lebanon are nominally under Sarkis' command...
...Hydra-headed monster will disappear. The varieties will be fewer and easier to understand." Not all bargain plans will be eliminated, but several have already been allowed to expire quietly, and some airlines would be happy with just a three-class plan of simple, straight first-class, coach and economy fares...
Under the Nunn plan, a typical four-member family with a $20,000 annual income would pay $769 less in taxes by 1983. Previously the Senate bill provided only a one-year reduction...