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...about 30 supporters joined his protest yesterday.Sherley has undergone extensive preparations for his strike. He said he has undergone tests for kidney, liver, and heart function, and has read up on the effects of starvation so he knows what to expect. A certified M.D., he will check his own blood pressure daily. An MIT medical team will be on call, he said. Sherley said he has had to resort to such desperate measures because he has “tried everything else,” and official channels within MIT have yielded no substantial results, and because legal procedures would...
...poems, supporters of Jiang Qing sent in police and militia to disperse the mourners. ''Thousands were killed,'' writes Cheng, ''and tens of thousands wounded. Those found with poems were condemned as counterrevolutionaries and shot without trial. It took the cleaners of Peking two days to hose away the blood and remove everything including the corpses.'' In September 1976, Mao Tse-tung died and the ferocious Jiang Qing was arrested for conspiracy, along with the rest of the infamous ''Gang of Four,'' whose members had played such a pivotal role in prolonging the Cultural Revolution. Then began the glacial process...
...guns and danced the hora, gave him a hero's welcome in Jerusalem. They chanted, ''Blessed be he who comes back without a conference.'' At least 100 Palestinians had died in the uprising by last week, but for the first time, an Israeli soldier was killed, shot in cold blood as he stood guard duty in Bethlehem. The army issued new shoot-to-kill orders against any Palestinian throwing Molotov cocktails. It also said in effect that Jewish settlers in the territories would be permitted to shoot rioters attacking them with gasoline bombs. There was prescience in Chaim Weizmann...
Cross, co-captain of the varsity men’s fencing team, was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia, a rare, fast-growing, and highly malignant form of the disease in which an individual’s bone marrow produces cells that fail to develop into normal red or white blood cells. Cross has already undergone two rounds of chemotherapy but still needs a bone marrow transplant, according to Cross’ teammates and friends...
CORRECTIONS: Due to an editing error, the Feb. 5 news article "Undergrad in Need of Bone Marrow" erroneously reported a collaboration between Harvard Hillel and the supporters of Samuel R. Cross '07. There will be a blood drive at Harvard Hillel Wednesday, Feb. 14, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Thursday, Feb. 15, 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The drive will continue Friday, Feb. 16, at Adams House. But plans to hold a bone marrow drive in conjunction with next week's blood drive were not confirmed...