Word: comments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cite the comment of French TV Correspondent Michel Meyer that in two months of intensive viewing of German television in 1981, he did not see a single broadcast that could be called positive or friendly toward the U.S., but did view numerous critical ones...
...long catalogue of alleged U.S. violations of Soviet airspace. Apparently unknown to him, Moscow was on the point of releasing a TASS statement admitting that the KAL flight had been "stopped." A few hours later, still looking impassive, Troyanovsky read the new TASS statement to the delegates without comment...
...football game between the Washington Redskins and the Dallas Cowboys, he referred to Alvin Garrett, a black wide receiver for the Redskins, as "that little monkey." Cosell's remark "was a slip that reflected a thought," said an incensed Lowery. Cosell, who at first denied the comment, was less abject than adenoidal, even though his remark had lit up the network's switchboard with angry calls. On his daily ABC radio show, Supermouth expressed his admiration for Garrett and noted, accurately, that some of his best friends were black, including Muhammad Ali, Willie Stargell and Sugar Ray Leonard...
Student representatives and officials comment that even the best intentions--and, in cases like storage, excellent results--don't necessarily go very far in a community like Harvard, where students for 350 years have spent their undergraduate days without anything approaching an effective student government...
...quit his post in June to protest the appointment of a Palestinian scholar to a research position at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Soloway charged that Whalid Khalidi's appointment in the spring of 1982 was dictated by a Saudi businessman's $1 million gift. Harvard officials declined comment...