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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the game on Saturday, band members and alumni will join together for a "big smash banquet," said O'Brien. One of the speakers at the banquet will be Alice Tondel, "The Band's Mom," he added...

Author: By Charles E. Cohen, | Title: Band Trumpets Its 65th Anniversary | 11/2/1984 | See Source »

...same night as the dining-hall last, the committee will co-sponsor a panel discussion and a "Hunger Banquet" with the Catholic Students Association...

Author: By Valerie G. Scoon, | Title: Students Sign Up to Fast for Ethiopia | 11/1/1984 | See Source »

...banquet will attempt to mirror the global food shortage by means of lottery-awarded meals, she said. Thirteen percent of the participants will car regular meals at tables, 27 percent will eat rice and vegetables on chairs away from tables and everyone else will eat small bowls of rice while seated on the floor. The committee has a separate banquet sign-up list in the dining halls...

Author: By Valerie G. Scoon, | Title: Students Sign Up to Fast for Ethiopia | 11/1/1984 | See Source »

...picture of a nation enslaved. Yet in the eyes of the Bulgarian leadership that was not Markov's worst crime against the state. On Radio Free Europe the defector offered a description of Bulgarian President Todor Zhivkov, a smiling brute on the order of Nikita Khrushchev. At a banquet the author catches the official acting like a Balkan Queen of Hearts, shouting the Bulgarian equivalent of "Off with his head!" when a writer who has offended him is mentioned. Little wonder that when Markov ultimately aroused his ire, Zhivkov once again called for an execution by less Carrollian means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notable: Sep. 24, 1984 | 9/24/1984 | See Source »

...forced laborers? On the first evening of the visit, Hirohito cleared the air. "It is indeed regrettable that there was an unfortunate past between us for a period in this century, and I believe it should not be repeated," said the 83-year-old Emperor at a sumptuous banquet in Chun's honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: Ritual of Reconciliation | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

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