Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Evidently unhappy about the criticism of his refusal to meet with Russian Writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn last July, President Ford recently moved to make amends. In an enthusiastic telegram to the Freedom Foundation of Valley Forge, Pa., Ford said he was "delighted" at the award of the foundation's American Friendship Medal to the Nobel prizewinner. The President's pleasure might well have been diminished had he anticipated Solzhenitsyn's bitter attack on U.S. foreign policy, aired last week on William F. Buckley's public television show Firing Line...
...turning West again, however, Sadat is subtly pressing Washington-just at a time when such pressure might affect a U.S. presidential campaign. Specifically he is looking for U.S. military equipment and assistance to replace the Russian aid denied him. In Israel, the idea of Washington arming Egypt has raised angry protests. U.S. Jewish voters, too, are disturbed and uncertain about Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's proposal to sell a package of six C-130 cargo planes to Egypt for $50 million. Supporters of Israel see the C-130s as only the first item on a long list...
...vocational bent in higher education has obvious pitfalls. "This whole business of trying to pick a major to match a job is just Russian roulette," says Harvard's Freeman. Today's "hot" fields-engineering or accounting, for example-could be glutted in a few years much as aerospace science, the glamour field of the early 1960s, fell fallow by the decade's end. Besides, asks Herbert Salinger, director of career planning at Berkeley: "Should we turn someone off to a field that really interests him" because job prospects are slim...
Because of inflation, faculty salaries, graduate teaching fellows and many of the programs at the school of education have been phased out. The Russian Research Center and the University's libraries and museums are currently keeping pace with inflation through a combination of minor retrenchments, including revenue drawn from the Faculty budget. Indeed many of the drives the development office now heads are designed to provide endowments for these libraries and museums...
...afternoon play, England's Virginia Wade was extended to three sets before downing cross-Channel challenger Betty Stove 4-6, 6-2, 7-5. Wade now faces Natasha Chmyreva, a strong young Russian player who has won impressively in her opening matches...