Word: chad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presence on campus for any reason. It is time that the University says that discrimination supported by the United States government does not qualify as acceptable to the Harvard community. Every member of the Harvard community must be accorded the full and equal dignity guaranteed by this University. Chad Heap...
...game began mildly enough. The Bruins kept the Crimson scoreless until freshman Chad Barker hurled the first of his three goals into the net with 1:37 left in the first quarter to make...
...East River on takeoff from LaGuardia Airport with a highly inexperienced crew at the controls, both pilot and co-pilot failed to make themselves available in timely fashion for drug and alcohol tests. When a French UTA jet exploded in midair after taking off from the African nation of Chad, investigators found evidence of a terrorist bomb, allegedly linked to Middle East events...
...crashes were comparable as cautionary tales, they differed sharply in severity. The LaGuardia accident resulted in two deaths and seven hospital admissions. The Chad mishap killed all 171 people on board. Yet in the week following the two crashes, the Washington Post ran an identical number of stories, five, about each. The Los Angeles Times published almost twice as many stories about the New York City crash (ten) as the one in Chad (six). In the New York Times, the LaGuardia crash rated twelve stories, the Chad disaster six. The networks reacted similarly: ABC's Nightline, for example, aired three...
...ability as a peacemaker. After five years of civil war following the independence of the "Belgian-Congo," he united the country under the banner of the M.P.R. in 1965, giving the citizens of Zaire peace and stability for over two decades. In 1983, the President sent Zairian troops to Chad in order to assist the Chadians in their battle against the Libyan army. Recently, President Mobutu has assumed a prominent role in the discussions over the dismantling of the apartheid system in South Africa...