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...Conservative daily Le Figaro dismissed the announcement as "mere twaddle." Jean-Claude Gaudin, a leader of the majority, grumbled, "The more Mitterrand says no, the more likely it is yes." A more probable assessment was offered by Jean-Jack Queyranne of the President's Socialist Party: "Mitterrand's brief remark served as a pointed reminder that he is still President -- and master of the game...
...first few people in Japan's remarkably closed and monolithic society, 98% of which is native born and historically chauvinistic, picked up on the horrific implications in the remark. Then the reaction from the U.S. hit the fan. William H. Gray III of Pennsylvania, black chairman of the House Budget Committee, angrily withdrew a dinner invitation to Japanese Ambassador Nobuo Matsunaga. Representative Mickey Leland of Texas led the 21-member Congressional Black Caucus in calling on President Reagan to demand an apology. Esteban Torres of California and his 14-member Hispanic Caucus were equally furious...
...remark clearly was aimed at Khrushchev, who came from peasant stock and is closely identified in the Soviet Union with the 1960s and with the corn-growing program...
According to press reports, Derek Bok, during his address to the final convocation of Harvard's 350th anniversary celebration, warned Harvard against pressures from those "outside" the academy. Both the New York Times and the Boston Globe interpreted this remark as referring to the group of anti-apartheid protesters who blocked the entrance to Memorial Hall on the evening of September 4 and forced the cancellation of a black tie dinner for 300 and more of Harvard's wealthiest contributors. As one of those who locked arms in the doorways that evening, I should like to call attention...
Those concerns grew in March, when Tisch's brother Bob, in an interview with USA Today, declared that the eventual goal of Tisch's policy "is to control CBS." When pressed by CBS board members, Laurence reportedly did not disavow the remark. When pressed further to put into writing his oral commitment to Wyman that he would never buy more than 25% of CBS's stock, he also refused...