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...week's end the executive committee of the board of trustees voted 9 to 2 to proceed with negotiations. Nothing was said about dusting off the portrait of Gloomy...
...with a Government contract to favor one race over another-hiring blacks, say, instead of equally qualified whites-even to atone for the effects of past discrimination. Government officials privately describe the new rules as an attempt to test how far it is politically safe for the Administration to proceed toward abandoning the current concept of affirmative action...
...Joseph Wapner, 61, a silver-haired retired judge whose 20-year career on the bench began with a stint in Los Angeles small-claims court. Wapner deliberates during a commercial break, then renders his judgment, which is final, since the parties on the show must waive their right to proceed in a real courtroom...
...nuclear war, there can't be a gentlemen's agreement whereby one side says to the other, 'O.K., you hit only our rockets, and we won't touch anything but military targets on your side.' When the war actually starts, it will proceed by its own momentum. If one side is attacked, it'll hit back with everything it has." In effect, these Soviet spokesmen are re-endorsing the concept of mutual assured destruction that Schlesinger, Brown and others have abandoned...
...missiles as part of the planned modernization of theater nuclear forces (T.N.F.). Britain, West Germany and Italy have agreed to base new cruise and Pershing II missiles in their countries in an attempt to match the Soviets' tactical nuclear buildup. But they insisted that the T.N.F. modernization would proceed only on the condition that the U.S. would begin negotiations with the Soviet Union to limit tactical nuclear weapons in Europe. These talks are scheduled to begin later this year. Says Denis Healey, deputy leader of the British Labor Party: "The neutron decision will inflict severe damage on the Atlantic...