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...Soviet detente. Sadat gambled that the U.S. would make concessions to the Arabs in its Middle East policy when he kicked the Russians out last year. He lost that gamble. Deciding to place emphasis on Arab self-reliance, he traveled to Saudi Arabia late last month to tighten relations with conservative King Feisal, enlist his aid in oil diplomacy, and persuade him to part with sizable financial aid for Egypt. Sadat also began seeking closer relations with Syria and with the oil-rich Gulf states; he visited Damascus and Qatar and met with the ruler of Kuwait in Cairo...
...decision to sell residential properties stems from two distinct interests of the Bok Administration: the desire to tighten up financial dealings and the wish to get out of the real estate business...
...renting the houses at market value, Harvard could tighten its finances just as it could by selling the houses at market value. Disposing of the properties, however, would solve the real estate problem. "I suppose it is a bother for the University to be a landlord," Peterson said...
...Bryant would give him a pat on the back and water-walking lessons, where swimmers would be expected to swim and damn the rest of the academic ball of wax, where he could negotiate athletic scholarships regardless of financial need, where he could settle back, heave his bulky shoulders, tighten the tendons in his squat neck, and butt his tubbly head into the midst of the national swimming power struggle. Gambril, who having built an instant title team with promises of national statistics and schedules and having roped two consecutive years of standout material, pulled the plug on the program...
...didn't want it done, and I'm still upset," Lonnie Relf testified last week before a Senate subcommittee, chaired by Edward M. Kennedy, which is pressing for a bill to tighten controls on Government medical experimentation. Relfs wife agreed: "I was mad. I wouldn't have let them do that...