Word: central
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University's central administration originally planned a larger hotel on the site but agreed to turn the matter over to Spence after members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) complained that they were not consulted about the plans. They maintained that Harvard should build a library or office building on the site, instead of a hotel...
What gave him that idea was Kafka's Amerika. "I was thinking about how he and Brecht and others saw America. Obviously, they got their ideas from the movies, the Keystone Kops, Chaplin. You think of these guys sitting in poky little movie houses in Central Europe in the 1920s watching these flickering images. As far as they were concerned, everything in America was all in the same place. You rode down Fifth Avenue straight into Monument Valley...
...decision to open the border came only after a tortuous debate within the Central Committee of the ruling Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party. Hard- liners argued that existing agreements with other socialist states must be upheld, while reformers said it was more important to meet international obligations, among them the 1975 Helsinki agreements and the U.N. convention on refugees. Imre Pozsgay, the party's pre-eminent reformer, told TIME, "We took the step that embraced the higher of the principles involved, that of human rights...
...possibility that Gorbachev's great experiment could collapse has gained currency. Rumors of coups or impending civil war have circulated so widely that Gorbachev felt obliged to denounce them in a TV speech early this month, accusing both left and right of spreading false alarms. The Communist Party Central Committee is scheduled to meet this week to discuss the nationalities crisis; Gorbachev reportedly will seek its backing to fire more of his critics from the Politburo...
...Hull Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Edward W. Desmond Beijing: Sandra Burton Southeast Asia: William Stewart Hong Kong: Jay Branegan Bangkok: Ross H. Munro Seoul: David S. Jackson Tokyo: Barry Hillenbrand, Seiichi Kanise, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: James L. Graff Central America: John Moody Rio de Janeiro: Laura Lopez...