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This year's General Assembly president is Luxembourg's Premier and Foreign Minister Gaston Thorn, 47, who is a deft negotiator-and compromiser. Thorn may be spared having to deal with some difficult issues. South Africa, for instance, will not immediately attempt to retake its seat in the Assembly, thus postponing a showdown between the Western nations, who insist that the U.N. should be open to all, and the Third World countries who voted to bar Pretoria's delegates during the Bouteflika era. For different reasons, Israel will also not be a seriously divisive issue. Syria will...
...search to fill the vacant mastership positions of Lowell, North, and South Houses this year was a thorn in the side of President...
Instead of a conference of 14 heads of government, last week's NATO summit in Brussels turned out to be a one-man show starring Gerald Ford. From 7:45 a.m. Thursday, when the President breakfasted on coffee and croissants with Luxembourg Prime Minister Gaston Thorn, until 6:30 p.m. Friday night, when he ushered out his last guest, François-Xavier Ortoli, president of the European Community Commission, Ford dominated the gathering. He met individually with 13 Western leaders, talking candidly and sometimes bluntly. He made an exceptionally firm speech at the conference's opening session...
...same old ineffectual people banging again on the Mass Hall door. And they would be right. Each one of the leaders has been grinding the community axe for so long that its blades are all but worn away. Harvard Square Task Force head Oliver Brooks has been a thorn in Harvard's side ever since he pushed for community input when building Harvard's low-cost housing projects of the '60s. Pebble Gifford was instrumental in compiling the Harvard Square Comprehensive Policy Plan that Harvard routinely dismissed as inaccurate and unhelpful. Brett Donham '60 is a long-time critic...
...your way, such risks are unnecessary, and if I were thinking this through in Moscow that is how I would see it." Another Western diplomat offers an equally disquieting thought: "The diabolical theory is that the Soviets will be very happy to see Portugal remain in NATO as a thorn in the side of the alliance - not a cancer but a thorn." Portugal already is a thorn in the alliance's side. What worries the West is that it may eventually begin to feel more like a dagger...