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...factors that led Haig to make a gesture of punitive linkage. Haig told Gromyko that the U.S.S.R.'s misbehavior in Poland and Central America required the U.S. to postpone the announcement of a new round of Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START). Yet Haig took pains not to threaten cancellation, or even indefinite postponement, of the negotiations themselves. There is every indication that they will still take place eventually...
Long-time private supporters of the Fogg Art Museum yesterday assailed President Bok's decision to end a three-year expansion plan, warning that the move would severely restrict the University's ability to raise money and threaten Harvard's traditional preeminence in the field of Fine Arts...
...reductions Reagan has already pushed through, as well as the additional ones he plans to propose, illustrate the hypocrisy of the Administration's economic philosophy and threaten the trend toward more accessible higher education. Reagan cuts tuition support in the name of conservatism, but he intends to increase federal spending in areas like defense, while simultaneously reducing taxes. The federal deficit will probably creep even higher than the $100-billion mark sheepishly estimated by the Office of Management and Budget. In short, saving a billion or two by making it harder for students to attend college or graduate school must...
...Japanese are also an increasingly important competitor at all levels of the computer market. Their firms now threaten U.S. dominance of the industry. The Government's case against IBM that was started in 1969 therefore seemed more and more anachronistic...
...course, its effect is the reverse of irony; one cannot have irony without rigor. Instead, it turns into the defensive chumminess that is one of the hallmarks of provincial art-the trade unionism of the In joke. Such longueurs threaten but do not overwhelm the effort to improve coast-to-coast cultural communication. This show is well worth seeing; and it will do a lot to dispel the faint condescension which, in some quarters, still clings to mere clay. -By Robert Hughes