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Students block a South African diplomat from leaving the Lowell House Junior Common Room where he had been speaking. Police break through the blockade, injuring some students, but do not arrest the activists. Protesters later face disciplinary proceedings...
...seems likely to be paralyzed as well. Moderate Arab nations friendly to the U.S. feel betrayed by the Administration's arms sales to Iran, a nation they fear because of its potential -- and unconcealed desire -- to stir up Islamic fundamentalist revolution outside its own borders. Says one veteran Arab diplomat in Cairo: "This Reaganite crisis will incapacitate the Administration. I am very much afraid we will have to wait two years (that is, until Reagan's successor is elected) before the U.S. can play a major role in the region...
...West Berlin verdict and the subsequent sanctions may not be the end of international embarrassment for Damascus. A Turkish court has reportedly issued an arrest warrant for a Syrian diplomat accused of ordering the murder of a Jordanian diplomat in 1985. In addition, Austrian and Italian authorities investigating last December's airport massacres in Vienna and Rome are seeking indications of Syrian involvement...
...FIRST TIME in a decade, Harvard University arrested political protesters. While the arrests last Friday elicited little comment from Harvard officials, they marked a significant change in Harvard's response to political protest. From the blockade of a South African diplomat at Lowell House in the spring of 1985 to the disruption of an alumni dinner at the 350th celebration this fall, the University has drawn criticism--from both supporters and opponents--for its ambiguous response to demonstrators. Harvard administrators have tried whenever possible to minimize dissent instead of risking publicity by confronting it either in word or in deed...
With his neatly trimmed mustache, pursed lips and pince-nez spectacles, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov seemed the embodiment of "the best filing clerk in Russia," as Revolutionary Leader Vladimir Lenin once called him. But his bland appearance, which led one British diplomat to compare him to a "refrigerator when the lights have gone out," was deceptive. In a political and diplomatic career that spanned the first four decades of Soviet history, Molotov earned the sobriquets "Old Stone Bottom" and "Mr. Iron Pants" from those who witnessed his legendary staying power at the negotiating table. Before his death...