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...harder for any party leaders to influence, are Jackson's grandiose foreign policy forays. Last week he announced that he will fly to Havana later this month at Fidel Castro's invitation. Jackson says he will try to persuade Castro to renounce the Soviet Olympic boycott and send Cuban athletes to Los Angeles. He plans a July 2 trip to the U.S.-Mexico border, where, he says, he will lead demonstrators to protest the Reagan Administration's policy on Central America and demand that the Western Hemisphere become a "war-free zone." Meanwhile, Jackson's political associate, Louis Farrakhan, leader...
...University's founding, and the rebellion started when Asa Dunbar, grandfather of Henry Thoreau, confronted an administrator and complained: "Behold, our butter stinketh and we cannot eat thereof." For inciting the ensuing demonstration, Dunbar was demoted by the Faculty, but the students rallied behind him and agreed to boycott breakfast. The Corporation and Overseers conceded that the butter was rotten, but they insisted that the students apologize for their insubordination or resign. They apologized...
Rosovsky's refusal to detail the action taken in the Dominguez case understandably provoked strong protest from sections of campus. The Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) strongly condemned the University's response as inadequate while several graduate and undergraduate students chose to boycott a class taught by Dominguez to protest the University's handling of the case. "Because there is no public statement (on the case), the University makes taking his course a political act," one student said at the time...
Transcending all foreign policy concerns is the sorry state of U.S. -Soviet relations. The Olympic boycott expands. Sakharov suffers. The Soviets seem unwilling to talk about nuclear-arms reductions. Instead, the Soviet Defense Minister announced last week that Moscow has added two warhead-laden submarines to the several already patrolling American coasts. Reagan tried to shrug off the new subs. "If I thought there was some reason to be concerned about them," he joshed, "I wouldn't be sleeping in this house tonight...
...Cuba and North Korea, not unexpectedly, last week joined the boycott. But Rumania broke ranks with the Warsaw Pact and said that it would send its athletes to Los Angeles...