Word: chestere
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Cornell Dean Geoffrey V. Chester said that administrators "simply felt that the climate on campus would be much better if they did not enforce the injunction strictly...
...extensive to ignore. Long regarded in the West as Communist clients for their ties to the Soviet Union, A.N.C. leaders are being received by a lengthening list of Western officials. In September British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe met A.N.C. President Oliver Tambo near London. Assistant Secretary of State Chester Crocker saw Tambo the same day. At their meeting Crocker told Tambo, "We are not talking with you because we like you but because we know you have influence in South Africa...
...Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was sympathetic to the President's action because she too disapproves of sanctions. The British were enthusiastic about sending Shultz to southern Africa and urged that he meet with Oliver Tambo, president of the outlawed African National Congress, South Africa's leading black political movement. Chester Crocker, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, met with Tambo two weeks ago in London. Other countries, in the meantime, were stepping up their support of sanctions. Canada announced that it would henceforth ban South African farm products, uranium, coal, iron and steel in keeping with...
After the vote, Sir Geoffrey Howe, the British Foreign Secretary and current president of the organization, told the ministers, "I fear that we'll have to sustain our pressure for much longer than many of us would have wished." At week's end Howe and Chester Crocker, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, held separate meetings in London with Oliver Tambo, president of the militant African National Congress...
...Crimson faced the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in the last game of the 1947 season. Fearing racial violence, Virginia officials attempted to prevent Harvard's black tackle, Chester M. Pierce '48, from taking part in the game...