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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expert on the history of the Holocaust this week challenged the selection of the president of West Germany as Commencement speaker saying the European statesman has systematically lied in defense of his father who was a chief diplomat for Nazi Germany...

Author: By Noam S. Cohen, | Title: Speaker Said to Conceal Father's Nazi History | 6/9/1987 | See Source »

...debate resulting from the failed blockade swirled not around the pros and cons of divestment and not around the legitimacy of what the diplomat had said but on whether the form of protest had been legitimate. SASC itself became the focus of attention, not divestment...

Author: By Matthew H. Joseph, | Title: Divestment Movement: R.I.P. | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

...politicized nor violent but want merely to be left alone to live in peace. Yet most West Bank Arab leaders would probably argue that political grievances are what bind the Palestinians together. "What the Israelis want for themselves, we want for ourselves," says Tawfik Amer, 63, a former Jordanian diplomat. "I do not deny the Israelis their state or their way of life, and they cannot deny me the same." Indeed, there is little doubt that the younger generation of Palestinians has become increasingly radicalized, particularly the university graduates for whom there are few jobs and little opportunity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East This Land Is Whose Land? | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

...touch down in -- the tightly guarded center of Moscow, which is ringed by an antiballistic missile system that is usually described as formidable. Moreover, Rust had managed to fly unmolested from Helsinki across more than 400 miles of the most heavily guarded airspace in the world. Said a Western diplomat in Moscow: "This puts a hole right through one of the great myths of this place, the myth of invincibility and impenetrability." A Soviet official put it more bluntly, "There are going to be more than red faces among the military over this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Welcome to Moscow | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

...Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the government had not received "so much as a police blotter" report from the Soviet Union about the incident. Officials were worried not only about the fate of Rust but also about the impact of his stunt on Soviet-West German relations. One senior Bonn diplomat called the timing of Rust's flight particularly unfortunate "against the background of the present arms discussions and everything else at stake in the world at the moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union Welcome to Moscow | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

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