Word: actions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wants to take any chances when it comes to the draft. What I found out when I called the senator's office was that almost 100 other people who received the notices had also been sufficiently alarmed to call. It was then that I decided that this action posed by the Committee on Central America (COCA) was not an issue about El Salvador but an issue about freedoms here at Harvard...
...right to be secure in the choices we make. The Handbook for Students makes clear that "Every piece of printed matter distributed must carry the name of the sponsoring organization and, in the lower left-hand corner, the word 'approved.'" When the Administrative Board decided not to take action against COCA, it implicitly made an exception to this rule--an exception which seems justified only in that the Ad Board, like Baer and me, happened to agree with COCA's position on this issue...
...spawning an exodus of thousands, is that Aoun's soldiers might clash with Syrian troops. A Syrian-supported attack on Aoun's stronghold is likely if, after a face-saving interval, the general does not accept the new government's authority. By week's end he had taken no action hostile to the government beyond denouncing Hraoui's election as illegitimate. Hraoui, on the other hand, swiftly moved to assert his powers by dismissing the three-man interim Cabinet that has been serving under Aoun...
...Alfred University in upstate New York. As usual, he charmed and joked, provoked and pleased. He lectured the freshman class about the need for activism at a time of environmental crisis brought about by misguided values. Afterward, dozens of students remained in the gymnasium to form an environmental action group. Leaving the hall, Rifkin looked back over his shoulder and said to a companion that these were the children of the antiwar generation. If they do eventually become Rifkin's political heirs, some would argue, the nation might benefit if they could deliver their messages with a bit more intellectual...
Unfortunately, simply treading water is no longer an option. The economy appears to be in a vicious downward spiral that requires radical action. The Heritage Foundation's Aron believes that in the coming months "Gorbachev will come to a sharp fork in the road. He will have to make a choice between a hard left or a hard right." Gorbachev and his reformist advisers know that a hard move to the right, toward a reassertion of police-state controls throughout society, would effectively end glasnost and perestroika...