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...spring of 1969, as in the fall of 1823 and various other occasions before and since, this organic society fell apart. In a rare show of unity students during these times exercised their collective force in an attempt to influence institutional affairs. In 1823, the quality of the food incited a campus-wide riot that resulted in numerous expulsions. In 1969, the presence of ROTC recruiters on campus prompted a takeover of Harvard's main administrative building and ended in a police siege. In both these cases, the issues were of sufficient concern to motivate a large group to change...
...Saturday, Dec. 6, the national uproar over the Iran-contra affair was at a peak. In his weekly radio address that afternoon, Ronald Reagan made yet another attempt to quell the roiling scandal, assuring listeners that "it was not my intent to do business with Khomeini, to trade weapons for hostages." The secret efforts to forge ties with "moderates" in Iran had been "broken off," the President stated...
...mission was Waite's fifth attempt to free hostages held in Lebanon. When the U.S.-Iran arms-for-hostages deals surfaced, there was immediate speculation that the secret American weapons shipments to Iran -- and not Waite's negotiating skills -- might have been responsible for the release of three U.S. hostages; originally the Anglican official had been credited with securing their freedom. Last week Waite insisted that despite Iranscam, "my credibility has not been affected as a negotiator." Perhaps not. But as the list of hostages continued to lengthen, even in the face of delicate negotiations and secret deals, more than...
...Aquino, the incident triggered the worst crisis her eleven-month-old government has faced since a military coup attempt last November that fizzled before it got off the ground. Two hours after the marines opened fire at the bridge, word reached Malacanang of a further setback: talks had broken off between the government and the National Democratic Front, the political wing of the Communist New People's Army (N.P.A.) in the effort to end the Philippines' 18-year-old insurgency. Leftists as well as rightists quickly seized on the setbacks to launch attacks on the President...
...Bayan, the largest leftist coalition: "Bayan points the finger of guilt at the Aquino government. By this act it has been shorn of all past claims of being democratic and antifascist." Juan Ponce Enrile, the ambitious former Defense Minister who was sacked by Aquino after the November coup attempt, also pounced on the President. "It is about time," he declared, "that we remove the masks worn by those of our national leadership and expose the true nature of their capacity to run the affairs of our republic...