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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite Baker's apparent fatalism, the U.S. does have another choice. It could back a three-part coalition that includes the two non-Communist factions and the leaders in Phnom Penh but forcefully excludes the Khmer Rouge. Not unless and until the two non-Communist groups accept that realignment should Washington provide them with arms. The result would be a different three- against-one equation that might lead to the eventual disintegration of the Khmer Rouge. And that would be a far happier fact of life for Kampuchea -- as well as a consequence for U.S. policy of which Americans could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: The Killing Fields Revisited | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

...completely meaningless. The question of whether ROTC can exist as an on-campus extra-curricular activity was settled 20 years ago. On May 29, 1968, a special faculty committee appointed by the Harvard Corporation concluded that "The armed services interpret the relevant public law as forbidding them to accept arrangements under which ROTC would become altogether extracurricular, with no contractual intermediation by the University beyond that afforded ordinary extracurricular activities...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: History's Lessons | 4/29/1989 | See Source »

Thousands of people had leaned out of windows and cheered as the marchers surged by. Kindergarten children stood at the gate of their school and applauded, and patients wearing bathrobes emerged from a hospital to accept pamphlets the students were handing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chinese Students Demand Reforms | 4/28/1989 | See Source »

...basically an honorific thing," said a foundation spokesperson. "Very few people don't accept the scholarship...

Author: By Kelly A.E. Mason, | Title: Three Sophomores Win Truman Scholarship | 4/28/1989 | See Source »

Both Green and Jackson rejected that logic. "You don't accept that one group of people can never be your friends," Green said. "You have to make the effort and it has to be sincere...

Author: By Amy B. Shuffelton, | Title: Styles Change, But the Problems Remain | 4/26/1989 | See Source »

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