Word: annexations
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...warm Saturday evening early this September, the classical strains of two violins and a cello resonate in the entrance to the Coop, mingling with the constant roar of Harvard Square traffic and an occasional siren. Around the Square's busiest corner, at Brattle and Palmer near the Coop Annex, a woman guitarist wails a Joni Mitchell tune into a portable microphone and amplifier in her own musical fight against the motorized bustle. The classical musicians and the lone woman each grab a portion of the nighttime crowd, but the audiences are largely transient. The onlookers stay for a song, maybe...
...that houses Iran's Prime Minister looked like a fortress under siege. Heavily armed Revolutionary Guards and machine gun-equipped Jeeps ringed the building; sharpshooters carrying G-3 automatic rifles were poised behind sandbags on the roof. Inside the compound, on the second story of a modern administrative annex, President Mohammed Ali Raja'i and Prime Minister Mohammed Javad Bahonar were attending a meeting so secret that its time and place had not been made public. The agenda: how to improve security against urban guerrillas, notably the Mujahedine Khalq (People's Crusaders), who had killed some...
...small but growing leftist guerrilla movement. In addition, paramilitary rightist groups like the Secret Anti-Communist Army (E.S.A.) appear to do their murderous work with the tacit cooperation of the government. Amnesty International traces the headquarters for most of the right's secret operations to the Presidential Guard Annex of the National Palace...
...Polish labor unions and 10 million workers. A lower court had inserted a provision into the charter recognizing the "leading role" of the Communist Party. Claiming that its independence had been compromised, Solidarity threatened a series of strikes unless the authorities agreed to put the supremacy clause in an annex. In the predawn hours last Monday, government negotiators finally caved in to their Solidarity counterparts; later that day, the supreme court overturned the lower court's decision...
...examples of Brown, Yale, Princeton and others and show a full-fledged commitment to a Third World center. Students at these other schools are enthusiastic in their support for the centers, variously describing them as indispensable, crucial, and valuable. Princeton sank $250,000 into its center to build an annex, and its center enjoys a wealth of programs...