Word: cues
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That seemed to be a clear call for a crackdown on the opposition, and the government took the cue. It immediately closed down 44 papers and magazines, and expelled five more Western correspondents (bringing to eleven the number deported thus far). In a particularly provocative move, it evicted a leftist Islamic group, the people's Mujahedin, from its headquarters in the former offices of the Shah's Pahlavi Foundation. Mujahedin leaders claimed Khomeini himself had assured them that they could keep their headquarters if they engaged only in normal political activity, but the authorities in Tehran...
...with C-4 plastiques, 50 gal. of gas, and black powder wrapped in naphthalene-a mix designed to make the explosion as fiery as possible. A special "cable-cutting" charge was planted to send the Huey tumbling at just the right moment. When the copter blew up, on cue this time, the sound was heard 40 miles away. One local radio station called it a sonic boom...
Recent issues discussed by the CUE include regulating independent study, revising portions of the Core Curriculum, investigating the possibility of increasing opportunities for foreign study, and drafting a set of tutorial reforms designed to bring students in closer contact with faculty members...
...CUE is smaller than CHUL, with about ten members, half students and half faculty members. Students tend to exert more power on CUE because faculty members tend not to show up for meetings and because Bowersock likes to work closely with students...
...elections generate more interest than the CHUL and CUE elections, but not that much more. Again, campaigning is implicitly condemned. A political party formed last year called the Coalition for a Democratic University (CDU), which managed to elect about 35 of its members to the Assembly and, consequently, to elect a CDU chairman and vice-chairman in the Assembly elections...