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...Canadian Cabinet met on Jan. 4 and approved a rare secret directive to issue Canadian passports to the six Americans-although not in their own names. The Americans were given the names of fictitious Canadian businessmen or technicians who would have valid reasons to travel to Tehran. U.S. sources have conceded that the CIA provided "technical assistance." This apparently consisted of helping to fabricate the necessary Iranian visa stamps...
...athletes to boycott the Berlin Olympics. It lost. As the St. Louis Post-Dispatch said at the time, it would be unfortunate if the Olympics were "dragged into the arena of political, racial or religious policy." That line is repeated almost exactly in 1980; it is no more valid now than...
...poor performance in skiing is one of the biggest mysteries?and greatest disappointments?in American sport. Lack of support was a valid reason in the early '60s, when the American team would fly to Europe on one-way tickets, ski the winter circuit, then scrounge airfare home. Now the U.S. Ski Team operates on an annual budget of $2.2 million (compared with $275,000 for the U.S. Speed Skating Team); American skiers have access to equipment and technicians as good as any n the world. Says Team Director Bill
...Newton and Beverly school systems have also decided to delay implementing student-led prayer, despite the Massachusetts Education Department's advice to presume the new procedure is valid until the courts rule otherwise...
Some of the questions raised by Bok are nonetheless valid, but not a lot of changes are needed at the Business School, Bower said...