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...Rights and Responsibilities to those students who attacked, intimidated, and harrassed South African diplomat Abe S. Hoppenstein at Lowell House last spring. By effectively condoning the actions of the protestors, the CRR has both insulted Mr. Hoppenstein and demonstrated that Harvard will take no action against those who disrupt conservative speakers, making sure that such speakers will hesitate to come to Harvard in the future. Further, if such speakers do come, the CRR's actions only encourage protestors to disrupt their speaking engagements...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hang 'Em High | 10/29/1985 | See Source »

...with the support of the Honduran army. In the south, where the FDN has opened a second front along Nicaragua's frontier with Costa Rica, there were reports of fighting last week between contras and Sandinista troops. The contras' aim: to cut the Pan-American Highway, which bisects Nicaragua, disrupt the economy and prepare the way for an urban rising against the regime in Managua...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua the Sandinistas Hang Tough | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

Hansen and Davis are considering applying for grants from the Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts and have a number of interested publishers (but no offers as of yet). The planners said that they have not let this uncertainty disrupt their plans for the Boone Project...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oral Biography to Star Fictitious Dilettante | 10/8/1985 | See Source »

...union because it can provide good wages and working conditions without the interference of a union. It cities its establishment of a long-awaited dental plan as an example of its concern. Also, pointing to last year's Yale strike, the University says that a secretarial union could disrupt the necessary serenity of an academic community...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Workers Unite | 10/2/1985 | See Source »

...week's end official Washington remained uncharacteristically closemouthed about Weir's unexpected release. "We don't want to do or say anything that could disrupt the active diplomatic process," said a State Department official. "We are delighted Rev. Weir is out, but seven is the number we are looking for." Whether that means the U.S. is close to obtaining freedom for the six Americans still held hostage remains a closely guarded secret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Benjamin Weir's Secret Passage | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

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