Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Anthony G. Amsterdam, a 45-year-old expert in constitutional and criminal law, will join the N.Y.U. faculty as a tenured professor in September, Norman Redlich, dean of the school, said yesterday...
...would have loved to have him," Alan M. Dershowitz," professor of Law, said yesterday, adding that talks with Amsterdam "never came to the point of negotiations...
Laurence H. Tribe, professor of Law, said yesterday the Law School sought for a long time to attract Amsterdam to the faculty. "There is nothing new or special in Harvard's desire to get Amsterdam." Tribe added...
...police, ordered by judges to enforce property rights of landlords, raided a squatters' building in Kreuzberg. Violent protests flared. Three consecutive weekends of street battles left 150 demonstrators and 100 police injured and caused $500,000 in damage. Similar disorders suddenly flared in other European cities, most notably Amsterdam and Zurich. The squatters put much of the blame on local housing authorities for an inability to cope with social change-not only population increases and the influx of foreign workers but such variables as more divorces, which create double housing requirements...
Call it pacifism, call it incipient neutralism, call it complacency born of three decades of peace and prosperity, but across Europe today an antimilitaristic mood is spreading through the body of public opinion, this time under the shadow of a growing Soviet arsenal. From Amsterdam to Bonn to London to Rome, marchers with BAN THE BOMB banners and antinuclear badges are loudly protesting attempts to reinforce Europe's nuclear deterrent forces. What is perhaps most remarkable about the phenomenon is that it is no longer seen only in traditional radical and leftist circles. TIME Senior Correspondent William Rademaekers reports...