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This week, that same group of University officials will gather again to assess the dilemma that Harvard and other universities are facing. If there really is "no crisis at this point"--as Robin Schmidt, vice president for government and community affairs, explained last week--then there are at least problems. The number of experiments in Harvard's medical schools and at nearby Harvard-affiliated hospitals that produce hazardous wastes are soaring. Both federal and state lawmakers have regulations on the drawing board which could exacerbate an already-tense situation. The costs of shipping and storing wastes are rapidly increasing, while...
...think about. The last time a similar situation occurred--when Cambridge city officials temporarily blocked recombinant DNA experiments because of potential dangers to the community--town-gown tensions were rubbed raw. "It's not a local problem at this point, but it could be in the future," says Robin Schmidt, vice-president for government and community affairs. Schmidt grouses: "if it gets into the political process six weeks before a local election," he says, it could impair rational consideration of the issues. City Hall observers fear that if City Council candidates get ahold of this, "all hell will break loose...
...people encountering toxic or carcinogenic substances, record-keeping problems are magnified," says Coddington. Harvard's government relations office is lobbying to make the rules more flexible. An EPA spokesman says the agency is now responding to institutional comments on its proposals and has stopped accepting further outside opinions. Schmidt insists, however, Harvard will be heard. "If we have something to say that adds to the debate, I'm sure it will be read and considered," he says confidently...
...West Germany, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's Social Democratic government, supported by powerful but reasonable trade unions, has largely held a noninterventionist course and ignored demands that the government cut taxes or raise spending every time a troubling economic forecast is issued. Result: West Germany's inflation rate is one-third as steep as the U.S.'s, its unemployment rate is only slightly over half as high, and the country's living standards are rising...
...Once again, the Israelis hold the West Germans chiefly responsible for the growing cooperation between Europeans and Arabs. Says an Israeli diplomat angrily: "We can't just brush aside the past." Bonn's view was that Jerusalem's reactions were largely emotional. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt is known to be impatient with Begin, whom he regards as holding too narrow and too rigid a position on the Palestinian question...