Word: chancellor
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Some students rolled under their beds. Some jumped into bathtubs. Bullets crashed into their rooms, one piercing a pillow. John Kopycinski, an assistant to the school chancellor, banged on the doors of students' rooms and told them to block their windows with mattresses against the possibility of shattering glass. He ordered them to draw their shades and not leave their rooms. Student Mark Barettella of Ridgefield, N.J., flipped on a ham radio transceiver in his room and aired the first personal account of what was happening. "Right now we can't move," he said...
Students at the Grand Anse campus still had seen no Marines. Barettella's amateur radio station, virtually the sole source of specific action reports for more than 30 hours, reached the school's chancellor, Charles Modica, in New York. Modica had been highly critical of the invasion, contending that his students had not been in danger before it began. He had urged students to remain in school, saying they could not expect a refund of their $6,000 annual tuition if they left. Now his assistant, Kopycinski, took the microphone in Grenada and pleaded, "Our water supply...
Some 30 hours later, the televised scenes of American students kissing the tarmac on their return to Charleston, S.C., testified to the dominant feeling among them that the President's action had been justified. Many said they had considered themselves in effect hostages on the island. Chancellor Modica, too, said after State Department briefings that he had changed his mind; his students had been in greater danger than he had realized. "The President acted properly," Modica now admitted...
Once this dramatic gesture was completed, tens of thousands began streaming into the sprawling Hofgarten Park in the heart of Bonn for an afternoon of antimissile rhetoric. The main attraction was former Chancellor Willy Brandt, chairman of the Social Democrats. Brandt told the cheering mass of his countrymen: "In Germany and in Europe, we need not more medium rockets but fewer ones. So we say no to more nuclear missiles." Certain powerful people, he continued, "have got it into their thick heads that deployment of Pershing Us is more important than reducing...
...some extent nationalism, among West European leftists, who are increasingly resentful of U.S. leadership of the alliance. That feeling has led to a widespread but mistaken belief that the U.S. is trying to force the new missiles upon recalcitrant Europeans. In fact, the idea was first advanced by former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who in 1977 sought to persuade a reluctant Carter Administration of the need to counter the Soviet nuclear missile threat in Western Europe. Although his Social Democratic Party lost the elections last March, in part because of the missile issue, Schmidt remains convinced of that need. "I have...