Word: action
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political adventurers with a lonely, unpopular cause. They were citizens of a state that maintains diplomatic relations with the U.S. Their invasion of the embassy violated a principle of diplomatic immunity that even the most radical and hostile governments have professed to respect. Most important of all, their action was condoned?if not instigated?by Khomeini, Iran's de facto head of state and a leader who himself had sought and received political asylum in the West...
...quickly ruled out a Mayaguezor Entebbe-style attack as impractical under the circumstances. Nor did the Administration have the option of undertaking any kind of covert action inside Iran that might have tempered the situation. When the Shah fell last January, most of the U.S. intelligence apparatus in Iran fell along with him. Confessed one Washington official: "We have reviewed our assets and our options, and they are precious...
...think the seizure is extremely irresponsible and in defiance of all international laws. I don't understand why such a student action can be endorsed by the legitimate government of any nation." Others staunchly defend the embassy seizure. Said an accounting major at Chicago's Roosevelt University...
...Hispanics hastened to assure their neighbors that the outcome meant, in Ferre's words, "no Latin takeover." Armando Lacasa, who campaigned successfully for election to the city commission with Spanish-language posters urging PROTECT OUR OWN, nonetheless proclaimed that the commission must offer "a piece of the action to everybody." Still, the election testified to the growing strength of "little Havana," Miami's huge community of Cuban exiles. Hispanics make up 55% of Miami's population and only 31% of the registered voters, but they trooped to the polls in impressive numbers. Miami's non-Hispanics...
Members of the Harvard Hunger Action Committee (HHAC), noted a high consciousness on the Cambodian situation and an encouraging response to the fast effort. "Once students recovered from the shock of what's happening, they've gotten more and more upset and are realizing that money must be made somehow." Manva Blumberg '81, a member of the HHAC said yesterday. "The participation in the fast has been really, really excellent, more than ever before, as two-thirds of the student body responded in some way." Carina Campobasso '81, another member of the group, added...