Word: assisters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...previous civil rights course taught by a Black professor, who left Harvard two years ago. Rather than immediately hiring another full-time Black professor, Harvard asked prominent Black attorney Julius L. Chambers to lead a special three-week course during the January winter term. Chambers invited Greenberg to assist...
...ships were just offshore, riding at anchor, gray silhouettes of power in a classic setting of blue sky, bright sunshine and white clouds. At daybreak on Wednesday morning last week, precisely on time, 800 U.S. Marines landed at Beirut Port. Their mission: to assist, with 800 French and 500 Italian troops, in the task of evacuating 7,000 Palestine Liberation Organization guerrillas from the Lebanese capital. After the Marines landed, they soon had the situation well in hand. Said White House Spokesman Larry Speakes the next morning: "Everything is going according to plan...
...trucks. For nearly three hours, hundreds of Palestinian soldiers throughout the city fired rifles, machine guns, rockets and antiaircraft guns into the air in a grand salute to their departing comrades. Watching the spectacle were 350 French peace-keeping troops who had arrived shortly after dawn that morning to assist in the evacuation...
...efficient for the Air Force to buy remodeled 747s, troops of Boeing lobbyists marched on Capitol Hill armed with charts, glossy photos and lavish brochures. Meanwhile, Democratic Senator Henry Jackson of Washington, Boeing's home state, strenuously campaigned for the company, asserting that the purchase of 747s "would assist the troubled airline industry." On May 13, the day the Senate voted on the defense authorization bill, Braniff declared bankruptcy. Looking to trim money from the military budget and to help distressed airlines, the Senate by voice vote approved Jackson's proposal to buy the 747s...
...global affairs but is loyally committed to proving that Reagan can put his own stamp on foreign policy. In a bold move with uncertain ramifications, Ronald Reagan did precisely that last week: he declared that he would be willing to send a contingent of Marines to Lebanon to assist in the evacuation of Palestinian guerrillas from West Beirut...