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...interviews earlier this month, Administration officials took varying positions on the University's use--or non-use--of the land. One turned a critical eye toward what he considers an inequitable arrangement; others defended it, suggesting that a tacit Harvard-Fly Club agreement allows the club to use the land in return for maintaining it, an agreement they say benefits Harvard by sparing it substantial upkeep costs...
...split. In the past few years, the National Federation of Priests' Councils, the National Council of Churches, and scattered church jurisdictions have passed various resolutions condemning discrimination in law, employment, housing, etc. But several Roman Catholic bishops have come out against "gay rights" bills in their cities. With the tacit backing of Terence Cardinal Cooke, Catholics played a heavy role last year in defeating a New York City antidiscrimination bill that had been expected to pass. In California, an ad hoc Coalition of Concerned Christians recently tried?but failed?to put to a referendum the state's new law legalizing...
...American military strength. "We must remain aware," he said, "that the Soviets are increasing their military forces throughout the world." At the same time, Defense Secretary James Schlesinger was in Colorado Springs insisting to the Air Force Academy graduates that American might "will remain an indispensable, though hopefully tacit element in the maintenance of world order...
...Middle East has witnessed since the end of the October war. Shortly before the canal reopened, Sadat spent two days in Salzburg, Austria, for his first meeting with President Gerald Ford; both sides considered it a profitable exchange of ideas about the next steps toward peace. In a tacit response to Egypt's peaceful intentions in reopening the canal, Israel announced a unilateral thinning-out of its forces in the Sinai. This week Premier Yitzhak Rabin will fly to Washington for his summit meeting with Ford. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who had been considerably downcast at the failure...
...action suggested to the Greek and Cypriot governments that the United States was following a balanced policy. It was a way of contriving to contain the refugees until Ankara had imposed its notion of social equity on the island, at which point Secretary of State Henry Kissinger '50 lent tacit approval to the invasion by announcing that "the Turkish Government considers the demarcation line negotiable...." He skirted the essential problem of an illegal military venture and accepted partition...