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...that Rosovsky will have vacant. Skiddy von Stade '38, dean of freshmen, will be retiring this year. "The problem with Whit stepping up like this is that Skiddy is stepping down at the same time," Edward T. Wilcox, director of the Freshman Seminar program, and long-time University Hall watcher, said last week...
...tend to get a greater percentage of fun and games than work here," says Larry Denenberg, who is employed as a computer watcher. "The productive work takes hours and hours a day, then they think it would be fun to have a program that would play a game. Once you start thinking about it you can't stop. So they keep working on it then they have a program that will play a pretty game. That happens at every school. Computers are great toys, toys to be played with...
Moscow may well hold the key to a solution. U.S. and British Kremlinologists last week differed strongly in their assessment of a recent Izvestia article calling for a coalition of "all patriotic forces" in Angola. Shrugged a Washington Kremlin watcher: "That kind of talk is cheap." British policymakers said the Soviet involvement in Angola has been the subject of debate in the Politburo for the past three weeks. One faction, led by Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Premier Aleksei Kosygin, has argued that the M.P.L.A. will have a hard task subduing UNITA, which has the support of some 2 million...
Troop Airlift. Some Western observers read the comparative lull in the fighting last week as a sign that the kind of debate going on in Moscow was also going on in Luanda. As one longtime British Angola watcher put it, Neto and his lieutenants may be realizing that "even if they win the next battle, it's going to be tough to win the war." The Luanda government, moreover, denied that it was solidly in the Soviet camp...
...that the Kremlin was not displeased. According to one theory, Brezhnev still wants a SALT II agreement, but he is also anxious to give potential opponents at the Party Congress no chance to suggest that he has given the U.S. concessions under pressure of a deadline. Says one Kremlin watcher in Moscow: "If Brezhnev goes into the Congress and says he is not ready to sign the SALT agreement because the Soviet Union cannot live with it, he is likely to receive a standing ovation...