Word: commits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...implement it, also undermined the Union's position. Last year's actions were one-shot affairs: undergraduates found it much easier to stay away from class for one day instead of joining in a boycott which conceivably could have lasted for weeks. As a consequence, many probably declined to commit themselves to this year's action...
...restricted." The jocular threat came from Desmond Lardner-Burke, Minister of Justice, Law and Order. Niesewand has looked after his wife well enough, but for the past month he has been in jail under an order signed by Lardner-Burke. The vague grounds: the freelance reporter was "likely to commit acts prejudicial to public safety or public order." Free translation: the white-supremacist government of Ian Smith did not like what Niesewand had been writing, and has the dictatorial powers to squelch...
...negotiations begin, they will proceed informally: The Administration will not commit itself in any way to recognizing the Union officially. John T. Dunlop, who master-minded the Administration's strategy last year, is gone, and it is unclear whether Franklin L. Ford, acting dean of the Faculty, will play a crucial role in the dispute. The Administration was bolstered last Fall when Edward T. Wilcox was appointed acting dean of the GSAS. Wilcox is a personable man who is also a skilled public performer. He is openly sympathetic to some of the Union's aims, if not its actual demands...
...been left in the dark about a lot more things. I don't want her to grow up with too many illusions." Why had the family let itself be filmed? Said Lance: "It's like who wants to die in an airplane crash, when you can commit suicide?" How would they have done the film themselves? Father Bill Loud answered: "We would have done more of a Laugh-In type of thing." The publicity didn't impress much: "I'm very big in a liquor store and very big in a barbershop and that...
...Postma. "A breast had been removed, she had had a cerebral hemorrhage, she was partly paralyzed, could hardly speak, had pneumonia and was deaf. Again and again she had told me and my husband, 'I want to leave this life. Please help me.' She had tried to commit suicide but she didn't succeed." Then one day in November 1971, Mrs. Postma visited the old-age home and found her mother propped in a chair, tied to the arms, because a male nurse had decided she needed to spend time out of bed. "When I watched...