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...consider the anti-expansion ordinance, though it did send a representative to testify in opposition at a committee hearing. And the University has said several times since that it will not suffer if the new law is passed by the council. "We have always abided by zoning regulations." Robin Schmidt, Harvard's vicepresident for government and community relations, said last year. But the message may have begun to sink in that the city aims to do more than merely include Harvard in its zoning, that instead it hopes to all but end the University's growth, Schmidt's assistant, Louis...
...June 4. The Commencement address has long been a highlight of our year-end activities. It was on this occasion that General George Marshall first announced the creation of the Marshall Plan after World War II. In the last three years, our speakers included Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, and Cyrus Vance...
...invited (a Third World head of state, according to one source) and another was approached. Neither idea worked out--a circumstance which is not at all unusual, as several plausible speakers are often sounded out before one accepts. "I don't really see what the big deal is," Robin Schmidt, vice president for government and community affairs, said last week. "The process was pretty much the same this year as every year... it just got perturbated by the possibility that the president of the United States would come...
...assigned Robin Schmidt to handle the invitation to Reagan. To some, it seemed as if he were waiting to receive assurance from the White House of a positive reply before sending off a formal invitation, but Schmidt said last week that that was not the case. A week after the Kennedy School's abortive efforts had been quashed, the whole matter burst into the open. Under the headline, "Harvard to its Kennedy School: Please, no Reagan at graduation," The Boston Globe reported that Harvard had "discouraged" an invitation to the president. The story was picked up nationwide, and officials feared...
...state party convention in Bavaria last week, Schmidt warned that unless the internal bickering stops, the strongly pro-NATO Free Democrats might bolt the governing coalition and join the opposition Christian Democrats, thus toppling Schmidt's government. Though the convention voted overwhelmingly to endorse Schmidt's stand on the missiles, the issue will continue to divide the party and threaten the Chancellor's ruling coalition for months to come. By James Kelly. Reported by Roland Flamini and Gregory H. Wierzynski/Washington