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...come to a decision as to how we think a student's education should be financed," Hicks explains. "If that doesn't correspond with the family's, that doesn't necessarily mean we'll re-think." If, as Harvard tends to recommend, one borrows the maximum and works at least one term, Hicks says. "It's difficult for the student to do much more...
...thrash out a response. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger argued that subtlety had proved futile in dealing with Israel; sanctions were now necessary. George Shultz, who has kept a notably low profile since he took over as Secretary of State, expressed exasperation with the Israelis, but was reluctant to recommend harsh steps. "Shultz is playing it coy," says a White House official. "He doesn't want to go out on a limb by confirming the Israelis' worst suspicions...
...vague reports. "Clouds, rumor and innuendo," is the way one agent summarizes the findings to date. One likely result of the scandal, however it turns out, is a long overdue reform of the page system. House Speaker Tip O'Neill last week appointed an ad hoc committee to recommend within a month some system for housing the pages together, in a dormitory perhaps, and for keeping them under supervision. At present the pages live wherever they choose and roam about Washington in off hours as they please, an arrangement that in view of their youth is a standing invitation...
...attack, so that a war could be pursued after an initial exchange. This would theoretically allow for a limited nuclear war, in which a Soviet attack could be answered with surgical retaliations that would conceivably be halted before a full-scale missile exchange occurred. Other parts of the report recommend establishing "special operations" units (presumably saboteurs and guerrillas) for possible use in Eastern Europe during a war and greatly expanding the Rapid Deployment Force...
...psychiatrist. Served four months. Taught government and law at San Francisco's Golden Gate University before regaining right to practice law in 1980. Now an attorney in Seattle. Says Watergate taught him "the limitations of presidential power. It was a positive experience, but I don't recommend...