Word: calme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There were conflicting reports on just how the accident occurred. It happened at 7:50 p.m. just after the ferry, loaded with people and vehicles, pulled out of the harbor for what would be a 4 -hour sail. Seas were calm near the harbor...
...Superficially, it seems like a very calm period racially, but in talking more personally [with students] I see problems under the surface," Herron said about her experiences at Harvard. "There seems to be a lot more racial frustration than I would have thought possible," said Herron...
Still, there is in the midst of this strange scene some stirring of calm competency trying to assert itself, first and foremost from Nancy Reagan. When West Wing concerns began to rise because the sequestered invalid was being judged too dotty to resume his duties, she ignored those who urged her to push him out front before he was well enough. "Too many people I know who have had this operation have tried to do too much too soon," she said. "They had to go back to the hospital. I'm not going to have that happen now." That settled...
State President Botha enters the campaign confident that his strategy will keep in power the National Party, which has ruled the country since 1948. He assumes that South Africa's white voters want a period of calm after so much turbulence. Since Botha declared a national state of emergency last June, incidents of political violence have dwindled to just a handful a day. According to government figures, the number of deaths in racial conflicts dropped from 665 to 251 between the first and the second half of last year. Under the country's harsh press restrictions, no violent incidents...
Council vice chairman Amy B. Zegart '89 says that the group owed the calm fall semester to its different membership as well as to the change in the campus' political atmosphere...