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Harvard's more than 200,000 alumni elect the Overseers to their six-year term through mailed ballots. Set up by the University charter, the board technically oversees the Harvard Corporation, but has concentrated on reviewing University academic policy in recent years...
...six-year battle against drugs has carried her more than 100,000 miles, through 29 states and 57 cities. She has given 49 speeches and 125 media interviews. She has summoned 17 other First Ladies from around the world to the White House and signed them on to her crusade. This from "Queen Nancy," this from the darling of the couturiers? Whispers in Washington still have it that the drug issue was forced on her by the political handlers. In fact, advisers like Mike Deaver and Sheila Tate argued against it. Too negative, they said. A jungle...
...much of his six-year tenure at CBS, first as president and then as chairman, Thomas Wyman was never sure he had enough of either of those commodities. Recruited by Paley from a job as No. 2 at Pillsbury, the diversified food firm, Wyman from the beginning was tarred by CBS insiders as not mindful of the needs of broadcast television, and of CBS News in particular. As 60 Minutes' Morley Safer put it last week, "He seemed to be not only cold and aloof as far as the news division is concerned, but extremely...
...six-year war between Iran and Iraq, the Soviet Union has been Iraq's chief arms supplier. Last week Soviet ships for the first time became Iranian targets. As it steamed up the Persian Gulf, the Soviet freighter Pyotr Yemtsov was seized by Iranian gunships. The vessel was searched and released after 36 hours, when its cargo proved to be construction materials for Kuwait rather than supplies for Iraq. A second Soviet ship, the Tutov, was stopped briefly in the gulf and then allowed to continue...
During the stalemated six-year war along their 730-mile border, Iran and Iraq have resorted to attacking tankers plying the waters of the Persian Gulf. Last week Iraqi pilots scored a strategic breakthrough when they struck Sirri Island, a key Iranian oil terminal that was thought to be beyond the reach of Iraq's fighter-bombers...