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...that the obstacles in the Ptashne case were surmountable, Bok added that "the participation of Harvard and its professors in commercial ventures can be structured in ways that are wholly consistent with its academic values. If so, the University might obtain a badly needed source of additional funding to strengthen its teaching and research while also benefitting the public through hastening the translation of basic knowledge into useful products and knowledge...
Resisting intense pressure, the Cambridge City Council last night reaffirmed its support for restrictions on condominium conversion in the city and even took steps to strengthen the two-year-old ordinance limiting condos...
...needed no further reminder of the urgency of attaining a broader U.S. goal: to work out a settlement among the warring factions in Lebanon so that crises would not keep on exploding like a series of land mines. To that end, Habib has also been seeking ways to strengthen Lebanon's army, to get the Syrians to take more responsibility for disruptive left-wing activities in and around Beirut, and to ease the growing militancy and sometimes separatist notions of the Lebanese Christians. Emissary Habib could be riding his shuttle for some time. - By Marguerite Johnson. Reported by David...
...appeared that the key to a solution of the present threat might lie with Saudi Arabia, where Habib had spent two days in talks with Crown Prince Fahd and other Saudi officials. The Saudis deeply fear that if a Syrian-Israeli confrontation were to take place, the Soviets would strengthen their influence in the region. Damascus and Moscow signed a 20-year Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation last October. In the Saudi view, a military conflict might also foster radical politics in the area, posing yet another threat to stability and conservative Arab regimes...
Meanwhile British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who never concealed her dislike for the Olympian Giscard, was hopeful that London could now strengthen its hand in European affairs with the weakening of the Paris-Bonn relationship...