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Teng disagreed, insisting that Soviet policies are essentially aggressive. He did not actually oppose the prospective SALT treaty, but he repeated to Carter his view stated to TIME that the U.S. should not expect much from SALT. According to a White House aide, Teng told Carter that "SALT cannot supplant the need for decisive action in other ways." He did not spell out what other ways he had in mind. On Capitol Hill, Teng's warning about SALT may well have caused a couple of Senators to change their votes, lessening the Administration's chances of getting...
...public system has overbuilt and overborrowed as well. If the private schools suffer most as the fiscal crisis deepens, that will be a consequence no one intended. The nation's large-and often excellent-public system was designed, after all, to supplement the private colleges, not to supplant them...
...push through a Soviet-backed proposal endorsing greater government control of the international flow of news (a U.S. lobbying effort stalled the motion). The bloc did succeed, however, in gaining UNESCO backing for a new Third World press pool that would supplement-and, some press libertarians fear, eventually supplant-the Western wire services in those countries. Says H.L. Stevenson, editor and vice president of U.P.I.: "If this pool decides it wants to give out handouts at the airport, that's it-we don't get into the countries...
...next fall, it the educational resources task force deals strongly with these issues, especially now when GSAS is shrinking in size, its report could very well supplant the report of the Task Force on the Core Curriculum as the most change-provoking document to come out of the University's review of undergraduate education--a document that the Faculty will not be able to ignore...
...despise so much. Peering in through the picture window he discovered, in a perverse parallel to Orwell's Animal Farm, that there's no difference between him and the writers at the cocktail party inside, that in fact, he's a lot worse than what he tried to supplant. During the trial of the Chicago Eight, J. Anthony Lukas '55, who covered it for The New York Times, tried to insert David Dellinger's comment, "Oh bullshit," (for which Judge Julius Hoffman revoked his bail) into the news story he was writing. The Times national desk balked. They wanted...