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Love's letter to the Foundation's Director S. Allen Counter criticized the University for creating an uncomfortable atmosphere for minorities. Love said he is constantly "confronted with subtle and blatant forms of racism, whether it be from peers or professors...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Student Charges Racial Harassment | 2/5/1988 | See Source »

...became a symbol of the stalemated wider war. In a rare Moscow briefing on the Afghan conflict, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov said last Tuesday that government forces broke the siege and killed or wounded 1,500 rebels. Insurgent leaders in Pakistan called the statement a "bluff" and a "blatant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan Fighting for the Road to Khost | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

...Zealand Prime Minister David Lange called Mafart's evacuation a "blatant and outrageous breach" of an agreement between the two countries. A New Zealand court had earlier sentenced Mafart and Dominique Prieur, the other convicted agent, to ten years in prison after they pleaded guilty to involvement in the bombing of the ship. The two were released into French custody on condition that they not return to mainland France for at least three years. French Premier Jacques Chirac claimed that the agreement had allowed an "automatic return to France" if either agent became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Home for The Holidays | 12/28/1987 | See Source »

Soviet brutality and blatant disregard for human rights was sharply brought into focus yesterday when Moscow security police beat and arrested CNN's Moscow bureau chief for "assaulting a Soviet citizen." The Kremlin must be complimented on its novel way of describing a journalist watching a refusnik protest. For most Russians, such incidents are a part of everyday life...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: Gorbachev's Surprise Attack | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...fine on Rich's company, the fugitive agreed to supply the papers. But just as the documents were to be shipped to the U.S., they were impounded at Rich's Zug offices by Swiss authorities, who argued that the U.S. judge had exercised "extraterritorial power" in blatant disregard of Swiss sovereignty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swiss Secrecy: Don't Bank on It | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

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