Word: closers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Says a senior intelligence official: "Ideally, the pipeline had to be invisible, passing through Pakistan without the Pakistanis' being aware that it was there." As a result, much of the operation is handled with the help of Saudi Arabia, which grows increasingly alarmed as Soviet airbases draw ever closer to its oilfields. The Saudis' support for the guerrillas is by no means covert; only six weeks ago, Crown Prince Abdullah encouragingly assured Afghan refugees in Pakistan, "Your struggle is a jihad [holy war] because you have taken up arms in defense of Islam. We will continue to assist...
...strongest emotions and greatest turbulence, however, surrounded issues closer to the Law School...
...from dead at Harvard. Most are the annual protests divestiture and "Take Back the Night" marches continue-al-belt with a more less fervor. But not all are so habitual. This year, for example, students took to the street spontaneously to protests the U.S. invasion of Grenada and closer to home: the newsletter of the Pi Eta Speakers Club, which used violent and degrading imagery to describe women...
Verba pays closer attention to those who score at the other end of the scale. He chooses 35 to 40. TF's with "disaster ratings" each semester, recommending that they get extra instruction either from the Danforth Center or the summer school's course of English as a second language...
...also made headlines closer to home in October when he lashed out, in a rare public statement, against a binding referendum that would make Cambridge a nuclear-free zone by banning research on nuclear weapons within city limits. Bok said the so-called "Nuclear Free Cambridge" proposal violated tenets of academic freedom, a view that residents of Cambridge apparently share. The resolution was decisively defeated by Cambridge voters in November, following a contentious campaign between supporters and heavily financed opposition groups, which included several Harvard professors...