Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accounts of the famine are excruciating to read. Arthur Koestler, then an ardent Communist, was traveling through the Ukraine by train. He recalls women outside his compartment window holding up babies who looked like "embryos out of alcohol bottles." For soup, people boiled rats, nettles, tree bark and the skin of old furs. While guarded warehouses nearby were filled with grain, peasants were beaten, arrested and even shot for trying to take the few remaining kernels lying on the fields of collective farms. In one village, families gathered acorns from under the snow and baked them into a sort...
...light of McGuire's death, Yale administrators have appointed a special committee to re-evaluate the school's alcohol policy, said Rose Stone, an assistant to the dean of the college. The committee is scheduled to meet for the first time next week...
Yale currently prohibits students under the legal drinking age of 21 from drinking alcohol at college-sponsored events. The school regulates drinking at the social functions by issuing special I.D.'s to any student 21 or older...
Yale's security head John Wilkinson said that he did not think the school's alcohol policy had been broken, even though students said that McGuire obtained some of the liquor that killed him at a college-sponsored party...
...There is no evidence to believe that any Yale students did anything in violation of the university's alcohol policy, Wilkinson told the Yale Daily News...