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Take a trip down memory lane, the narrow shady pathway that runs next to the Bio labs on Divinity Street, pretty far removed from the battleground of University Hall and the Stadium and the Loeb drama center Faculty meetings where ROTC lost its last battle at Harvard two years...
They selected as their battleground the Fourth Annual Motorcycle Custom and Trade Show sponsored by the Cleveland Competition Club, an organization that unlike Hell's Angels, the Breed and sundry other outfits, is chartered by the American Motorcycle Association. Staged in a three-story brick hall in the heart of Cleveland's predominantly Polish Southeast side, the annual show is designed to brighten motorcycling's image, and has never witnessed as much trouble as a fistfight. The proceeds were to go to a crippled children's fund...
Across the midsection of Africa, at roughly the point where the savanna meets the tropical forest, a kind of human fault line separates the Arab world from Black Africa, This zone of instability, from Chad to the Horn, is a battleground where Arab guerrillas are pitted against black governments, and African rebels against Arab regimes. In a sense, two of the stubbornest rebellions-the civil war in the southern Sudan and the Eritrean uprising in northern Ethiopia-are extensions of the Arab-Israeli conflict to the north. The situation in the Sudan has been further complicated by the Soviet Union...
...Washington. It increases both their pleasure in being there and their chagrin and insecurity that it all may so soon be taken away. For some men of power and politics, the city tends to be like a chessboard, for some a football field, for others a blood-drenched battleground. For their wives it is often like a cruise ship: the rules of behavior seem formidably strange at first, as do one's fellow passengers, and one feels a yearning for the familiar comforts of home. But after a while the routine becomes second nature, and certain attractions begin to reveal...
...thing about Kent State was that professor standing on the hill overlooking the "battleground." He was quoted as saying, when he became aware that blood was flowing, "My God, this is for real!" Well, for goodness sake, did he think it wasn't? Do the students think they are playing games? Maybe they'll put away the rocks and dynamite and the rest of their little toys and go home if we get the message across strongly enough -"You're damn right it's for real...