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...junior year, he was the Secretary General of College Conference, and this year arranged for the controversial visit of former Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith to address the conference. "Ian Smith, I thought would be quite unique. He was a man who was a very staunch white minority leader but then he changed over to Black majority rule fairly peacefully. And I thought that would be a very interesting perspective, since South Africa is definitely in the news...
While missing out on the Marine Corps contract will not put much of a dent ) in Fiat's sales or profits, the prospect of being excluded from bidding on substantially larger Pentagon contracts worries Agnelli. He is a staunch supporter of President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, the antimissile research program known as Star Wars. Says Agnelli: "Sure, I'm concerned. We're trying to participate in SDI. If Fiat is blacklisted, that could be a big problem...
...Staunch support of anti-Communists is a campaign centerpiece for Bruce Herschensohn, 53, an acerbic and deeply conservative commentator for the ABC television station in Los Angeles. Herschensohn's foreign policy acumen is often praised, lately by former President Nixon, who starred at a fund raiser for him in Newport Beach. Herschensohn commands the allegiance of many hawkish Republicans, but G.O.P. pros fear that he is the sort of somewhat scary hard-liner whom the incumbent Cranston has trounced in three straight Senate elections...
Another source of concern is the stalemated effort to reach a Middle East peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors. Fahd remains a staunch backer of Yasser Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organization as the sole spokesmen for the Palestinian people. Despite the collapse of oil prices, the Saudis continue to provide hefty financial support to several other Arab states and the P.L.O. At their meeting last week, the King and Vice President Bush agreed on the need for stability in the region, but they differed on how to promote an Arab-Israeli peace...
...think Ortega gave us a boost," chuckled Dole. During the debate that preceded the vote, Republicans pointed to the incursion to punctuate their concerns that the Sandinistas were bent on a bold expansionist course. "Blood is still flowing as we talk in the U.S. Senate," intoned Jesse Helms, the staunch North Carolina conservative. "It baffles me that we can even be debating 90-day delays (in the delivery of contra aid) when men striving to be free are being killed." Frank Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska, warned that the raid "underscores the dangers that the Nicaraguan conflict could spread throughout...