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While the address of Charles, Prince of Wales, was surprisingly engaging and Secretary of State George P. Shultz made an effort to justify the foreign policy of the Reagan Administration, only a speech by President Derek C. Bok on the role of the university in society offered any introspection. Even Bok's address was confined to generalities and did not address Harvard specifically. That address, for all its limitations, stood in stark contrast to the banality of the rest of the celebration...
...Administration's public position perceptibly hardened. Speakes reversed himself, now suggesting that a swap might not be worth considering after all. So did the State Department, but only after its boss spoke up. "Let there be no talk of a trade for Daniloff," Secretary of State Shultz declared in his speech during Harvard's 350th-anniversary celebrations on Friday. "We, and Nick himself, have ruled that out." Calling the arrest of the magazine correspondent an "outrage," Shultz said it "showed the dark - side of a society prepared to resort to hostage taking as an instrument of policy...
...following a weekend meeting outside London of the Community's twelve foreign ministers. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's stalwart stance against sanctions appears to be easing. During a visit to Washington this week, British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe is expected to inform U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz that Britain will join with the rest of the European Community to ban imports of South African coal, iron and steel. Preparations are also under way for U.S. and British officials to meet in an undisclosed location with Oliver Tambo, president of the outlawed African National Congress...
...just as the Reagans were about to set out on their daily horseback ride. Later the White House released a statement declaring, "Nothing can justify such barbarism. We can think of no punishment too severe for the criminals responsible." In an address at Harvard University, Secretary of State George Shultz lamented that "the day has not yet arrived when terrorism has taken its place among other vanquished barbarisms of our time." The U.S. dispatched a secret Delta team to Karachi to be used if a commando assault on the aircraft was required. But the bloody affair ended several hours before...
...south along the British Columbia coast. Canadians deny U.S. claims that the strip's boundaries encompass some 300 sq. mi. of rich fishing grounds near British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands. In August, Joe Clark, Canada's Minister of External Affairs, rejected a request from Secretary of State George Shultz to negotiate the issue...