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Vice Presidents Robin Schmidt and Fred L. Glimp '50 handle government and community relations and alumni affairs and development, respectively. They differ in their relationships with Bok, but each presides over a key area of University policy...
...than originally planned, in late 1983. The rush is in order to counterbalance the growing Soviet arsenal of intermediate-range SS-20 missiles. If the missile has a serious problem-design refinements have increased the program's projected cost by 56% since last year-West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt could be embarrassed. Moreover, American negotiators now bargaining with the Soviets over such nuclear missiles might find their leverage weakened...
Other European voices were also raised over the pipeline. During a private visit to the U.S., West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt told businessmen in San Francisco that "by claiming the right to extend American law to other territories, [the U.S.] is affecting not only the interests of the European trading nations but also their sovereignty." Even British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, whose country will not be linked to the Soviet network, has publicly rejected the U.S. stance. Said she on a state visit to Italy earlier this month: "These contracts were made and completed in good faith. If a country...
...chestnuts when, with a little brio and imagination, music directors could offer them something fresher and equally palatable? Instead of Zarathustra, for example, why not Strauss's eloquent valedictory, the Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings? Instead of yet another oft-encountered romantic symphony, how about Austrian Composer Franz Schmidt's dark, troubled Fourth Symphony? Instead of one more go at Dvořák's "New World" Symphony, why not his exhilarating tone poem The Wood Dove...
...Some Western European governments, however, are exploring another possible compromise: a crackdown on loans to the Soviet bloc, in return for a partial lifting of the pipeline-equipment ban. The U.S. had tried to win such a promise at last month's Versailles summit. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt last week discussed with Dutch Prime Minister Andreas van Agt the credit restrictions they might impose...