Word: attending
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only five members of the 11-member panel were present for the vote last night. Six committee members attended the committee's first two hour meeting Wednesday night. Mark Roosevelt '77, who attended the Wednesday night meeting but could not attend last night's meeting, voted last night by proxy...
...agreed to "facilitate wider travel" for its citizens. Still, Sakharov was characteristically far more concerned with dissenters in prison than with his own plight. At the same tune, some brave Russians put themselves in jeopardy by supporting Sakharov with a petition denouncing the authorities for refusing to let him attend the Oslo award ceremony. It was signed by 72 people−and not all of them were known dissidents. According to a study published last week by Amnesty International, there are at least 10,000 "prisoners of conscience" in the U.S.S.R.−men and women who have been arrested...
...black students continue to attend Harvard-Radcliffe in scores. Some grapple with the institution head on in an attempt to carve out an identity, sitting at Black tables in the dinning halls, participating in Big Brother programs with disadvantaged Boston youngsters, feeling perhaps an inordinate amount of pride and relief when Freddie Hubbard and James Baldwin come to Harvard and relate superbly both as artists and Black men. Others feel no compulsion to address the question of race at all, moving through the maze of intense Harvard experiences, positive and negative, as independent entities. Either attitude has its advantages...
...safely. The incident was quickly reported to a Portuguese Airways Boeing 747 entering the pattern, causing the cautious pilot to change course and head back to Lisbon. Ironically, the jumbo jet was packed with leftist dignitaries from Eastern Europe, Portugal and Viet Nam who were heading to Luanda to attend the M.P.L.A.'s independence festivities. Thus the ranks of visiting VIPS in Luanda were embarrassingly thin...
Last Decision. Douglas nonetheless rushed back to Washington to attend the Friday court conference. The pain soon got to him again, and he had to be wheeled back to his chambers for an application of hot-water packs. On Monday of last week, he tried again as the Justices heard 4½ hours of arguments on one of their most important cases this fall-a challenge to the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1974. Douglas managed to stay less than two hours. That night he told his wife that he would resign. "It was his decision and his alone...