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From the day Turkey's generals took power in a bloodless coup in 1980, they promised to return the country to democracy as soon as they thought possible. But over the past five months, the regime of President Kenan Evren, 65, has cracked down, sometimes harshly, on journalists, academics and cultural personalities who have expressed even mild opposition to the government. The measures have raised fears that the military leaders of NATO's easternmost member may renege on their pledge. Says the often pro-government columnist Metin Toker: "Whatever they do, it will not create an atmosphere...
...Throughout the day, as fighting spread to other Bangladesh cities, bands of students continued guerrilla-style raids, beating civilians, burning shops and attacking buses. By the time the army had restored order, three people were dead and 300 wounded in the worst violence since Ershad took power in a bloodless coup eleven months...
Owing to a bloodless coop here at 14 Plympton St.--and to the beginning of a divine intersession--we won't be publishing till the middle of next week. The Crimson resumes its regular schedule on Wednesday, under the management. See you on the stones...
...silken refinement of his playing; of causes and in a location not announced by Soviet officials. A prodigy who burst into the international spotlight at age 27 by winning the 1951 Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels, Kogan's flawless but aloof technique could on occasion produce bloodless interpretations. A Jew who denied that Moscow was guilty of anti-Semitic discrimination, he publicly criticized dissidents like Andrei Sakharov...
...this term, the department has begun a broad investigation of a serious, if bloodless, problem: the structure of its undergraduate curriculum...