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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...police department began hostage-negotiating courses in 1974. Since then its graduates have faced 15 major hostage incidents-and saved all the victims without firing a shot. The emphasis in the program is on psychology; the key rule is to stay cool. About 75% of the officers seeking to attend the program have been turned down because they show signs of inability to handle the extraordinary stress of a hostage situation...
...happy to participate. What I am seriously worried about is a theatrical conference convened just to keep the area busy, which will achieve nothing. Isn't it tragic that people wonder if the Palestinians, the people who have been driven out of their homes, have the right to attend a conference on the Palestine problem...
...explained to me how, when she undertook this ballet in the early 1960s, there was absolutely no precedent for using ballet to show military history, and almost no one would support her intent to establish it. In search of approval from among the leaders, she invited Premier Chou to attend a rehearsal of an early version, which he did. The weak spots that he pointed out they changed. To educate her dancers in the ways of the military, she decided to send them down to live with a PLA unit for some months...
Being a Rolling Stones fan is no way to make headlines-unless your name happens to be Margaret Trudeau. Then it is easy. All Margaret had to do was attend a couple of rare nightclub performances by that bad, bad band at Toronto's El Mocambo and mingle with the boys afterward. Trouble was, the first show coincided with the sixth anniversary of Margaret's wedding to Canada's Prime Minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 57. Leaving husband and three children in Ottawa, Margaret, 28, had checked in at the Stones' hotel and stayed up with...
...lesser degree, was mentioned in the second. However, neither article stressed the fact that women other than dues-paying undergraduates were not invited to the RUS women's dinner either. The dinner was to be held at Mather so that RUS members from the River Houses could more easily attend the event, which had previously been held only at the Radcliffe Quad in Moors dining hall. A great many of the women in Leverett, Quincy, Eliot, etc. expressed interest in attending the monthly event, but found it difficult to get to Radcliffe, especially since the buses do not begin...