Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent years when stormy weather did force the ceremonies inside Sanders Theater where they were held from 1876 through 1915--there were more things for University officials to worry about than an early June downpour. The year was 1968, and it was, Anderson says, "the start of student dissent," when Harvard students protested the appearance of Shah Muhammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran, whose speech was interrupted several times in an overcrowded Sanders...
...ultimately need a more comprehensive approach to medical education, producing physicians trained to use newly developed medical technology. For the interim, however, Tosteson has helped engineer a set of preliminary curriculum changes that will go into effect this fall--changes that this year sparked a small storm of student dissent that only now is beginning to subside...
...Western alliance in proper perspective. The grandiose displays of unity at Versailles and Bonn will remind all of the participants, as well as the rest of the world, that the allies still share a good deal of common ground. While the Soviets have found it necessary to quash dissent within the Warsaw Pact by brute force and intimidation, disputes within the Western alliance, however deep they may seem, are testaments to what is clearly a more genuine cohesion. - By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett/Washington and Lawrence Malkin/ Paris, with European bureaus...
...helped supervise the brutal Soviet repression of the Hungarian uprising. Though not previously a professional secret policeman, Andropov was named top cop of the Soviet Union in 1967. He quickly became known for the efficiency with which he repressed all forms of political, religious and national dissent in the Soviet Union during the 1970s. A specialist in Eastern European affairs, Andropov was able to consolidate his position in the Soviet hierarchy following the imposition of martial law in Poland last December. "It made him look good," says the University of California's George Breslauer. "This was not because...
...arms negotiations reflects the divergent concerns of the three audiences- in the U.S., Western Europe and the Kremlin-to which his message was addressed. Despite their differences, those listeners appeared to share one basic and important reaction: relief that the Administration, after 16 months of delay and internal dissent, had come forth with a plan to get the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. back to the strategic arms bargaining table. The only group that expressed dismay at the President's intentions were some hard-line U.S. conservatives, who feel betrayed by Reagan's more moderate approach...