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...Marshall Plan's rapid and measurable impact on European GNP soon led many economic planners to try similar schemes in the Third World. But bad politics and bad planning have crippled American attempts to replicate its European strategies elsewhere. Anti-communism has too often dominated aid choices in Africa and Asia, while commercial lending to Latin America has never allowed its regional economies the breathing space which the Marshall Plan created for Europe...
...rapid increase in the number and depth of the committees over the last decade has produced staffing problems because most overseers do not have the competence to judge the science departments. "If you have lawyers being chairmen of science committees, sometimes they don't know what they are talking about," says Board President Samuel C. Butler '51, who favors an increase in the number of hard scientists and doctors on the Board...
Chirac went on to a 4 1/2-hour exchange with Gorbachev. Afterward the French Premier praised the Soviet leader's plans for reforms. "What he has in mind is not just profound but rapid," said Chirac. "If it succeeds, and I hope it does, this experience of reform will change the world by the end of the century...
...there were moments during the meeting when the two leaders found themselves in what one observer called "cordial disaccord" and another acknowledged as "sharp exchanges." Said Chirac: "Our contact was rapid, alive with interruptions and immediate reactions. I found that style extremely pleasurable." The subject of arms control took up more than half of the meeting. Gorbachev repeatedly expressed his disappointment regarding France's assessment of Moscow's nuclear disarmament proposals. Chirac reiterated his government's acceptance of the zero option, which would remove medium-range missiles from Europe, but reserved judgment about Moscow's double-zero proposal, which would...
...where Snell was heading. A deputy sheriff in Montana said that he had seen someone matching Snell's description driving through town with two other men. Stubbs went to a map, drew a radius around the spot and figured the men had to be heading for Casper, Wyo., or Rapid City, S. Dak. He put out leads to law officers in the area, who started watching the roads. Reported sightings were relayed to Stubbs, who used the computer system to corroborate or discount them. Within ten days, the search focused on an isolated farmhouse outside Rapid City. A dawn raid...