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...competitiveness, Bok has called for an increased international presence at Harvard. Earlier this month, a special assistant to the President disclosed a report prepared for Bok which recommended that Harvard reform its admissions practices to increase the quality and number of foreign students in its schools. And in a speech last spring Bok criticized the Reagan Administration's foreign policy for tending toward isolationism...
Last week, Bok again addressed the competitiveness issue--one constantly harped on in Congress--in a speech with Stanford President Donald M. Kennedy '52 in Los Angeles. In his remarks, Bok took aim at the Reagan Administration for neglecting long-term spending for university research and facilities. Only with such aid, Bok said, could universities keep pace with world-wide research and take a larger role in improving American economic competitiveness...
Fire Fighter Jeff Brand looks like hell. His unshaven face is covered with grime, his eyes are swollen and bloodshot, and his raspy speech is punctuated with third-degree coughs and sniffles. "I'm sick as a dog," he growls. The dense smoke on the fire line in Northern California's Klamath National Forest has cut visibility to a lung-searing 150 ft. It is eclipsing the sun like a primordial fog and slowly choking the solemn line of fire fighters. Brand, 26, from Kentfield, Calif., pauses occasionally on the steep slope to vomit discreetly in the woods. "This...
...speech, Alfonsin skirted many problems. He outlined no fresh measures to reduce government expenditures or privatize any of the state's 520 deficit- ridden companies. Although Argentina has been conciliatory to creditors, foreign bankers have been especially leery of debtor nations ever since February, when Brazil stopped paying interest on a large part of its $110 billion debt. That helped lead several U.S. banks to declare record losses. Since a similar default by Argentina would add to the bankers' mounting woes, they are as eager for Alfonsin's new program to work as the President...
...director of the Peace Corps will announce a nationwide campaign to double the number of overseas Corps volunteers within five years in a speech here today, according to Peace Corps press officer James C. Flanigan...