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Harvard opened the southern swing at Towson and was blown out of a close tilt in the last stanza by three unanswered Towson goals...
...State Department directed U.S. Ambassador Frank Carlucci to raise these concerns with President Francisco da Costa Gomes and inform him that the leftward tilt was inimical to U.S. and NATO interests. Five other NATO countries officially voiced similar complaints. The Administration was consulting its European allies about means of imposing a kind of quarantine within the alliance. As Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger put it, "It will have to take some symbolic form ? making them outcasts without casting them out." Explained another official: "We would deny access to classified documents that circulate in the alliance and disinvite them...
...Sunday, as the crew was doing just that, Parker was also cautious. Usually, if you ask him a question, he'll tilt his head up, roll back his eyes and answer with a calm, "Oh really?" or "Not really" or just plain "really" which every Harvard oarsman can mimick in tonal perfection. When he wants to think about something, Parker will look out the nearest window and there will be a long, uneasy silence...
Whatever the reason, India's resentment about what it feels is a renewed Washington "tilt" toward Pakistan will not make life easier for William Saxbe, the U.S. new Ambassador to India, who was in Bangkok when the embargo was lifted. Saxbe went to some pains to point out that he opposed the Administration's decision, although he said he was obliged to support it. Even though ranking State Department officials are confident that the storm "will blow over pretty soon," the spectacle of the U.S. ambassador sightseeing in Thailand to delay taking up his post in India...
Ford promised to veto the bill suspending his tariff hike even though more than two-thirds of the Senate voted for it -enough to override a veto. Yet in the hope of sustaining his veto, he moved toward a compromise, what he called "committing ourselves to a gasoline tilt." He was willing, he suggested, to let the price of gasoline rise higher than that of other oil products. While his original program would have entailed a 100-per-gal. boost on all oil products, he would now permit gasoline to absorb most of the price increase. He was also considering...