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Upon learning of his plans to speak in Lowell House, a diverse group of students spontaneously chose to protest his presence. Our was that it would be gross neglect of civic duty to knowingly allow a spokesperson for racial supremacy to be welcomed into our community without a presentation of deepest outrage. How is one to express that conviction? Which means of action are open to students confronted with the responsibility to protest...
...impulse to take action, however dangerous. As he radioed his base station --Hester's handle was "Stringbean," the base was "Country Cousin"--a white Chevrolet Monza with three occupants sped past him. He followed at high speed. Country Cousin, actually Howard Petty, 61, security director for the Eastwood Civic Association, relayed the information to a deputy constable hired by the association on weekends. The deputy intercepted the fleeing Monza and took the occupants at gunpoint to a nearby bar, where a customer lay dying from a gunshot wound. Other patrons identified one of the trio as the assailant...
Iacocca's other principal civic work is his chairmanship of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial Commission. The renovation of the statue will be finished in 1986. The more ambitious Ellis Island project, which is to include a new museum of immigration, will take until at least 1987 to finish. "Everybody's getting into the act," he gushes. "How about this--we even got $2,000 from the Hell's Angels!" Commission Architect John Burgee says that when the two of them take inspection tours of the enormous Ellis Island entry hall, Iacocca, the immigrants' son, chokes...
...inaugural championship for Hockey East in the Providence Civic Center, Providence squeaked to a 2-1 victory over Boston College in double overtime...
...citizens of Uruguay, the occasion was a civic triumph: the inauguration of Julio Maria Sanguinetti, 49, as the tiny South American country's first democratically elected President in 13 years. But for much of the hemisphere, the spotlight in the capital of Montevideo was focused last week on two of the official guests at the ceremonies, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra and U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz. The question: After days of high-profile posturing by their respective governments, would the two men agree to talk over their differences...