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...many strengths and a compensating pool of weaknesses. One of its strong points is that, in the event of hostilities, it would not have to protect any sea lines of communication because the U.S.S.R. is self-sufficient in a high proportion of strategic materials, and its people, as a senior Soviet general recently said to me, "can live off cabbages-and we grow good cabbages...
Thus, for the moment at least, Carter has adopted the hard-line stance that Brzezinski has been urging all along. Indeed, at this point even Vance is not far behind. Said a senior State Department official: "This is not a political reaction. It's not like Panama. This is a threatening situation, and it's coming from the guy [Brezhnev] who can really let us have...
While the Western leaders easily reached agreement on the defense program, they sidestepped another serious problem: the hostility between NATO members Greece and Turkey over Cyprus. One senior diplomat called the schism "a serious menace to NATO'S eastern flank, perhaps even to the alliance's future. It is a terrible wound." Making it even worse, in NATO'S eyes, is Congress's 1974 embargo on U.S. arms shipments to Turkey, which used weapons provided by the U.S. in Cyprus...
...this time, no officials in the present real estate department have been invited to join the board of directors, says Wyatt. The corporation was Wyatt's idea completely, and he expects that most of the six or seven senior officials in the present real estate department will have the option of joining the corporation. Some of them may prefer to look elsewhere for employment, because the nature of their jobs in the new system will be quite different. "They shouldn't consider the corporation a threat. I had no plans to make anyone feel threatened by the loss of their...
After being rejected by Woody Allen, Orson Welles and Lily Tomlin--among many others--the senior class committee finally settled on Rodney Dangerfield as this year's Class Day speaker. Dangerfield, known to millions for his heart-warming televised tributes to Miller Lite beer, apparently decided he could get more respect from the seniors and their parents than the usual crew of drunken nightclub patrons. Dangerfield has never attended a Harvard Commencement before...