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Angry mobs disrupt campuses in violent demonstrations against President Chun Doo Hwan' s decision to postpone electoral reform. -- Projections indicate that Aquino' s slate won an overwhelming victory in the Philippine elections. -- A peace initiative threatens to topple Israel' s unity coalition. -- The trial opens for the accused "Butcher of Lyons." -- A coup shatters paradise in Fiji...
...intimidated, and that the university will neither seriously discipline the perpetrators nor invite the silenced speakers back. If students on the Right were to take a cue from students on the Left and, on the grounds that Professor Kennedy's recent remarks were offenseive and insensitive, were to disrupt his lectures or blockade him in his classroom or office, or pelt him with vegetables, there can be little doubt that the university would rush to his defense, and rightly so, in the name of academic freedom. Indeed, last year's incident at Dartmouth shows that when right-wing students dare...
Perhaps Professor Kennedy would prefer the atmosphere of some European universities, where groups on both sides of the political spectrum routinely hire thugs to disrupt meetings of their opponents. At such institutions, productive dialogue between students is completely absent...
...packets illustrate that last year's insurgent candidates for positions on the board did more than momentarily disrupt the complacency of a group that stopped overseeing decades ago. The insurgents, one of whom gained election, established that governing Harvard does not have to be exclusively about affirming the status...
...nearby Zimbabwe, Botswana and Mozambique, charging that those countries were harboring guerrillas of the African National Congress, the South African liberation movement. The State President and his Foreign Minister, Roelof ("Pik") Botha, have been warning the A.N.C. that it would face such military strikes if it tried to disrupt the South African elections...