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Harry Koundakjian: photo-journalist, opening reception, Shahe Hall, Holy Trinity Armenian Church, 145 Brattle St., Cambridge, Friday...
Kings and Saints: The Carved Images of Armenia: slide lecture by Dr. Lucy Der Manuelian, Johnson Hall, Holy Trinity Armenian Church, 145 Brattle St., Cambridge, Friday...
...role of Blacks at elite institutions like Harvard. When it is forthcoming we'll see new and viable behavior by Black alumni-not Black alumni weekends but large financial gifts by wealthy and not-so-wealthy Black alumni to endow professorships in African Studies or American Studies, like Armenian-American alumni endow in Armenian studies and for study of genocide in modern states, or Jewish American alumni endow in Middle Eastern Studies, or Irish-American alumni in Celtic Studies. It takes more rigorous reflection on these matters than Spencer Jourdain offered if we are to stimulate more cosmopolitan and mature...
During a four-hour siege of the embassy, the three, who said they were members of the Armenian Revolutionary Army, took eleven hostages, including the Turkish Ambassador's wife and teenage daughter. To escape capture, Turkish Ambassador Coskun Kirca leaped from a second-story window, breaking an arm and a leg and cracking his pelvis. He lay briefly in the line of fire until a police officer could drag him to safety. Finally, police persuaded the three men to surrender. The attack was an attempt to force Turkey to acknowledge responsibility for the 1915 massacre of an estimated 1 million...
...start of the press conference. But the press agency TASS began reporting his action even before he spoke, and suspicion mounted that the Soviets had acted to protect their large investment in a status symbol they regard as a more suitable cultural ambassador at large than the youthful, half-Armenian, half-Jewish Kasparov. As David Spanier, British author of Total Chess, put it, Karpov is the ideal Soviet champion, "a very Russian Russian who follows the party line...