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...local experts on Mexico, President elect Miguel de la Maduad must be careful to play down his foreign connections and particularly his lingering reputation as a Harvard-trained technocrat or risk undermining his tenuous political legitimacy...
Though the so-called agreement still has not been published, by all accounts it is indeed tenuous. The Europeans promised to study alternatives to Soviet-supplied energy and new restrictions on high-technology exports and low-interest loans to the Soviet bloc. They did not commit themselves to any specific acts. Washington, finally aware that the sanctions were dividing the alliance without stopping the building of the pipeline, needed an excuse to end them. Said one senior adviser to Reagan: "We didn't want cheese. We just wanted out of the trap." The French attempt to deny Reagan even...
...most Congressmen of both parties scoff at the notion that the tenuous coalition with the Boll Weevils, which did not hold together on the tax-hike vote last Au gust, could possibly be assembled now that there is a 103-seat Democratic majority. Most of the incoming freshmen are more liberal than their colleagues. In a survey of the new members by the New York Times, 83% favored cutting back scheduled in creases in defense spending, 62% pro posed canceling next July's tax cut, 89% opposed trimming Social Security cost-of-living increases, and 58% opposed additional reductions...
...Reagan Administration is much more encouraged by recent events in Lebanon, where Gemayel has moved aggressively to restore his country's ties with the Arab world and to strengthen the tenuous links between Lebanese Christians and Muslims. During a visit to Morocco last week, he declared that he and King Hassan II were in agreement on various Arab problems over which "we are all suffering." Gemayel said that he would soon visit other Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia. Gemayel's motives are commercial as well as political. As a Lebanese businessman explained: "Beirut prospered as the commercial...
...council demonstrated sensitivity towards what is becoming a widely accepted view. Harvard's funded and centralized student government must effect legitimate, tangible accomplishments this year to secure campus support which is now buoyant but tenuous. To this end, council members--and particularly Council Chairman Michael G. Colantuono '83--moved debate on the agenda's more picayune items at a clipped pace. Voting on necessary procedural matters, including the selection of delegates to various committees and the planning of the council's office, the group set a healthy precedent for itself by deliberating these inconsequential issues in an unhesitating but thorough...