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...aboard by chance and encountered Hart. She told the former Senator, "You probably don't remember, but I met you at Aspen." Hart admits he asked for Rice's phone number, and the next day, she says, he called to invite her to accompany him and Broadhurst on a daylong boat trip...
...foiled mission came after daylong clashes in Beirut and an Israeli air raid against Palestinian positions in south Lebanon...
Nonetheless, the daylong protest marked a triumphant milestone in the history of the country's organized black labor movement. Black unions have been legal in South Africa only since 1979. Marshaling the organizational skills needed to achieve a nationwide strike was their greatest challenge yet. Aware that failure would weaken the unions' image as a potent force in the debate over the future role of blacks in the country, the leaders took pains to assure a strong turnout...
...last elected Prime Minister arrived in ancient Lahore, the home of the Punjabis, who dominate the military and bureaucratic elite that rules Pakistan. The political risk paid handsome dividends. Benazir Bhutto, 32, was greeted by hundreds of thousands of frenzied supporters, who enveloped her motorcade and staged a daylong demonstration that was the largest display in memory of discontent with the military government of President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq. "Zia is a dog," chanted the demonstrators again and again. "We love Benazir...
There was some tough talk last month at a meeting in Washington of the normally staid American Association of University Professors. In an impassioned address during a daylong symposium on academic freedom, Chancellor Joseph Murphy of the City University of New York blasted a new right-wing watchdog group that he said was recruiting students "as a corps of thought police." The group, Accuracy in Academia, was founded last summer by Militant Conservative Reed Irvine as an offshoot of his flourishing (35,000 members) Accuracy in Media, which makes a business of challenging perceived liberal bias in major news organizations...