Word: abely
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...past few days the Conservative Club has been outraged by the sympathetic treatment given by the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities to those students who attacked, intimidated, and harrassed South African diplomat Abe S. Hoppenstein at Lowell House last spring. By effectively condoning the actions of the protestors, the CRR has both insulted Mr. Hoppenstein and demonstrated that Harvard will take no action against those who disrupt conservative speakers, making sure that such speakers will hesitate to come to Harvard in the future. Further, if such speakers do come, the CRR's actions only encourage protestors to disrupt their speaking...
Last year, when a wave of anti-apartheid activism was at its crest, the Conservative Club invited South African diplomat Abe S. Hoppenstein to a private reception. The Lowell House event precipitated a major demonstration that last week resulted in disciplinary action against 10 students...
Nakasone had planned a second official pilgrimage to Yasukuni. Last week, however, a government spokesman indicated that the visit would be canceled, possibly to ensure a cordial welcome for Japanese Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe, who arrived in Peking on Thursday for talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wu Xueqian. Counseled Wu at a welcoming dinner: "Please benefit from the lessons of history...
...Abe Stays Home...
Last spring, South African diplomat Abe Hoppenstein paid a visit to Harvard to give a talk to the Conservative Club, and in the process sparked an divestment protest and rally which turned unusually violent. Hoppenstein was asked by the College body charged with disciplining the students involved in the protest-turned-blockade to return to the scene of the alleged crime, not to talk politics, but to discuss his version of the incident, in which about 200 students blocked his exit from Lowell House. Hoppenstein, however, declined the invitation, saying that he did not "want to get involved in domestic...