Word: closedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because meetings are closed, it is not clear how much influence the student minority can exert at the meetings. Two years ago, one of the graduate students on the committee resigned, charging it was a rubber stamp for administration policy. During the same year an undergraduate member published a dissenting...
Helms' difficulties date back to 1973, when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was weighing his nomination as U.S. Ambassador to Iran. Twice the committee quizzed him in closed sessions about covert U.S. efforts to prevent Salvador Allende Gossens from becoming President of Chile in 1970. Twice Helms in effect...
Despite the general calm, some Israelis actively opposed the new measures. In the ancient southern city of Beersheba, workers marched through the streets shouting "Begin go home!" One-day strikes closed down the postal service in Tel Aviv, the national airline El Al, Tel Aviv's airport and the...
Though several telephone callers had claimed a link between Caransa's kidnaping and the Red Army terrorist group that abducted and murdered West German Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer, Dutch police continued to investigate the case for the nonpolitical offense that it evidently was. "We are not butchers with political...
Pursuing the story of what went on behind the closed doors of Vatican I, Hasler mined dusty archives across Europe for nearly eight years. His findings have now been published in German as Pius IX: Papal Infallibility and the First Vatican Council (Anton Hiersemann; $130).