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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because many of the nine schools are geographically isolated--with the medical science schools a 20-minute bus ride away from most of the other schools--graduate and professional students say that they have little idea of what is going on at the other schools. They add that a unified graduate student voice will be better able to influence University policy and implement changes...

Author: By Liam T.A. Ford, | Title: Grad Students Fill Gap With GAPSC | 4/1/1988 | See Source »

...like a Twilight Zone set, Wappingers Falls (pop. 5,000) has become the scene of a netherworld nightmare, a place where reality seems as distorted as a fun-house mirror. Last Nov. 24 Tawana Brawley, a 15-year-old black girl, got off a bus on Route 9 and disappeared. Four days later the onetime cheerleader was found in a daze, crawling into a garbage bag in the backyard of her family's former apartment complex. Her hair was crudely cropped, her body smeared with dog feces, her chest inscribed in charcoal with the letters KKK and the word NIGGER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hullabaloo on The Hudson | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

...described in press reports last week, the raid, said to have cost $100,000, began on a January morning when Mahone and one of her troopers flagged down a school bus in the Jordanian town of Jerash. While he pinned the driver to his seat, Mahone swept her child off the bus. The raiders fled by car and crossed into Israeli-occupied territory. Maternal mission accomplished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jordan: Mom to The Rescue | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

...offer his own peace initiative, which would give Palestinians some autonomy, but rather than beginning negotiations on the disposition of territories within nine months, it would stall for at least three more years. Last week the Palestine Liberation Organization foolishly played into Shamir's stonewalling strategy by hijacking a bus carrying civilians in Israel. The terrorist incident, which left three Israelis and all three guerrillas dead, bolstered Shamir's position that Israel should not enter into negotiations that might include the P.L.O...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Backed into a Tight Corner | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

Bowling Green 1, Vermont 0 The Vermont bus gets lost on the way to Ohio. The Cats wind up at a bowling alley. Ian Boyce and Kyle McDonough roll perfect games. Meanwhile, the Falcons win by forfeit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NCAA Hockey Tournament Opens | 3/18/1988 | See Source »

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