Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Board will meet shortly to discuss the complaints about the letter to the 119 and to begin disciplinary proceedings for three students involved in another spring protest, the blockade of a South African diplomat in the Lowell House Junior Common Room...
...keeping with their general moderate approach, activists are largely apologetic about the event that brought them the most criticism from administrators and the most attention both within and outside of the campus. Leaders of the movement say the temporary blockade last spring of a visiting South African diplomat in a Lowell House room was unplanned and the result of an uncontrollable crowd. They point to the rally and sit-in--both peaceful events--as the successes of the year...
Last spring, South African diplomat Abe Hoppenstein paid a visit to Harvard to give a talk to the Conservative Club, and in the process sparked an divestment protest and rally which turned unusually violent. Hoppenstein was asked by the College body charged with disciplining the students involved in the protest-turned-blockade to return to the scene of the alleged crime, not to talk politics, but to discuss his version of the incident, in which about 200 students blocked his exit from Lowell House. Hoppenstein, however, declined the invitation, saying that he did not "want to get involved in domestic...
TIME had first applied for the interview last March. Still, it came as a surprise on Saturday morning, Aug. 24, when Grunwald received an urgent phone call from a Soviet diplomat. The question: Could he, Cave and Duncan be in Moscow by Monday for an interview with Gorbachev? Visas? No problem. Everything would be taken care of. Indeed it was. Soviet officials smoothly whisked the TIME group through Moscow airport's tight security...
...removed as chief of staff by Chernenko. Ogarkov has been made operational commander of the Soviet Union's western front. His ideas sometimes clash with mainstream military thinking; he is thought to favor more emphasis on conventional, and less on nuclear, weapons. Says one senior Western diplomat: "The military cannot be too happy with the way things are going...