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...RELEVANT facts of the Kent-Brown protest are clear. Some 40 minutes into the South African diplomat's remarks, 20 members of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee rushed toward two of the auditorium's three exists and linked arms. Their goal was to force Kent-Brown out of the hall's front door and into and confrontation with protestors gathered outside the Science Center. Harvard police responded appropriately, breaking the blockade and escorting Kent-Brown from the room...
...high-minded principles fail to consider individual situations in a practical and reasonable manner. Citing the necessity of maintaining basic freedoms at an academic institution, many people have condemned protesters for blocking two to three exits of the Science Center auditorium in which Duke Kent-Brown, a South African diplomat, appeared last month. But those who employ such rhetoric to criticize the protesters tend to ignore the legitimate and laudable efforts by protest groups to publicize their views. The community might do well to go beyond basic principles and necessary freedoms that most people accept already and begin to develop...
...caused them to back away. Conservatives worried that the party's authority was threatened by Deng's 1984 drive to extend free enterprise to China's cities and by public discussion of political reforms. Last year's student unrest only heightened their fears. As a result, says a Western diplomat in Peking, "Deng's coalition has been coming apart...
...make a previously scheduled trip to Israel. The Shamir government, reacting to pressure from Congress, announced that it would not sign new military sales contracts with South Africa, although existing commitments would be unaffected. But the impasse over the Pollard affair was far from over. Declared a Western diplomat in Tel Aviv: "The Israelis have to understand that Washington wants blood...
...their homes by day. If the attacks are aimed at swelling the tide of refugees who have already poured from the city, which has dwindled from more than 1 million residents in 1980 to about 175,000 today, they are amply fulfilling Iran's expectations. Says a Western diplomat: "Basra is basically inoperable...