Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sawhill, who will officially take over in September after Hester, 51, leaves to become rector of the new United Nations University in Tokyo, was a natural for the job. "It would have been nice to have a pure academic," said Allen Burdowski, 27, a student member of one of the search committees. "But we needed someone who could communicate the problems of higher education to the Government." Sawhill acknowledges that his most important task will be to make "a forceful case for the continued existence of a strong private higher-education system" and seek greater Government support for private colleges...
...task of analyzing President Ford's reassessment of U.S. foreign policy-the subject of this week's cover stories-involved TIME correspondents from Saigon to Tokyo to Western Europe. But the principal reporting for Senior Writer Ed Magnuson's lead story on the Administration's policy reappraisal came from the members of our Washington bureau who have been following the review since it began late last month...
Strange Week. While the refugee flight continued on to Oakland, Calif., and a warm reception from Bay Area civic and military officials, Daly slipped away to a Tokyo hotel for a needed night's rest. "I've managed to get 14 hours of sleep in the past 14 days," he said, "and I'm beat." Operating at full throttle in South Viet Nam, Daly had argued unsuccessfully with U.S. AID and embassy officials for authority to fly hundreds of additional orphans out of Viet Nam and wired Secretary of State Kissinger demanding permission to send...
...JAPAN, which, along with Australia and New Zealand, has close economic links with the U.S. Tokyo is as essential to U.S. security in the Pacific as Western Europe is in the Atlantic area...
...jetted in reinforcements from everywhere. The Chicago Tribune switched its Far Eastern correspondent, Ronald Yates, from Phnom-Penh to Saigon within 24 hours of the news of the retreat; the New York Times moved in Pulitzer Prizewinner Malcolm Browne from Belgrade, Bernard Weinraub from India and Fox Butterfield from Tokyo; TIME dispatched William McWhirter from London and Tokyo Bureau Chief William Stewart; ABC pitched in with twelve full-time personnel...