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...example recently joined Tufts' president Jean Mayer in signing a letter to Secretary of State Edmund S. Muskie which calls for repealing the INS policy. Bok says he doubts the government's policy will affect the hostage situation and labels Carter's motivations "rather obscure." State Department spokesmen confirm that the department has received Bok and Mayer's letter but decline to say what their response will...

Author: By Sarah L. Mcvity, | Title: Iranians Meet an Unkind Host | 6/5/1980 | See Source »

Fortunately, the assembly did not forward a down payment to Amtrak for the $13,500 train, and when only 70 students lined up to ride the railroad, spokesmen quietly backed out of the project...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Life of the Party | 6/5/1980 | See Source »

...late March, anti-registration forces converged on Washington to rally against registration in a gathering that reminded many of demonstrations against the Vietnam war. Since then, however, anti-registration activity on college campuses and across the nation has diminished significantly. Anti-registration spokesmen attribute the downswing in part to a natural attitude shift that accompanies the end of any school year...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: The President's Call to Arms | 6/5/1980 | See Source »

Bristol and spokesmen for other national anti-registration groups, however, point to the reaction that greeted Carter's program immediately after the president's speech. Students across the nation demonstrated against the president's plan, and at Harvard more than 800 turned out on one of the coldest nights of the year to protest the proposal. But since the bill entered Congress in February, registration news has faded from the pages of newspapers and activism has decreased...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: The President's Call to Arms | 6/5/1980 | See Source »

...defense of Giscard's mission, French spokesmen argued that it had been designed to re-establish a vital line of communications between the West and the U.S.S.R. The five-hour summit in Wilanow Palace-with Polish Communist Party Boss Edward Gierek as host-had produced no perceptible relaxation of East-West tension, much less any Soviet concession on Afghanistan. But the French argued that at least they had set a precedent that might lead to more fruitful talks in the future. French officials said that preparations for the meeting had been kept secret because Brezhnev, whose health is notoriously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: A Lone Ranger Rides Again | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

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