Word: centra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--President Reagan declared today the United States must give Nicaragua's Contra rebels "what they need to survive" and said prospects for peace in Centra America depend on keeping pressure on the leftist Sandinista government...
While Bok may be committed to an end to apartheid, his primary allegiance lies with the preservation of the centra, relationships of authority that have characterized normal life at the University during his tenure. Carefully and deliberately Bok wants to insure that he and the Corporation alone will have a hand in guiding the University's investment policies. Divestment for him is a test of his ability to maintain control of the University. Caving in to student and alumni pressure would merely set a dangerous precedent...
...Katz's formulations, is really quite simple: the rowdies in Boylston Auditorium who threw glass and red paint at the speakers violated the central tenet of academic discourse, the free expression of all sides of an argument. On a matter as emotional and divisive as U.S. policy in Centra America there is simply no room for such attempts to squelch opposing viewpoints...
...what has so far been a frustrating battle, students here and elsewhere have continued to demonstrate strong opposition to U.S. support for militaristic governments in Centra! America A contingent of about 75 undergraduates joined tens of thousands in Washington last week in an emphatic demonstration against intervention in El Salvador...
Because higher education has become so centra' to our culture, government is more and more inclined to intervene in order to make certain that our colleges and universities serve the public well. Yet we know that government can easily clasp education in a deadly embrace that stifles its creativity and vigor... --Public Interest, Winter...