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...University officials confirmed, the protestors offered extreme physical violence to Mr. Hoppenstein in pushing and grabbing him, and attempting to drag him to the round. There is no telling what the frenzied protestors might have done had they succeeded in knocking the Consul down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Under Fire | 5/8/1985 | See Source »

Harvard's Winthrop House has its own inimitable way of fabricating spring. On the first Saturday that dares to show a shaft of sunlight between the thickly knit clouds, we drag out the grills and declare a barbeque. Eager and willing to celebrate this long-anticipated new season, impatient Winthropians don Hawaiian shirts and sun-glasses. Music comes blasting into the courtyard from some heavenly sphere--or is it really only that fourth floor window? Miraculously, a tire swing appears in a nearby tree. Idyllic, you say. Just exactly how a spring day should be, you say. Well...

Author: By Anne Tobias, | Title: Spring Hasn't Sprung | 5/2/1985 | See Source »

Gorbachev has got major problems at home with the economy. Therefore where we in the West are strong, he needs our help. He's got to be concerned about Eastern Europe and the outer perimeters of the Soviet empire. Every one of the Soviet Union's "colonies" is a drag and has to be subsidized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We in the U.S. Are Suckers for Style | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

There will definitely be hockey (no need to hyperventilate over this one). And basketball. Both winter sports will drag into...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: Season's Greetings | 4/19/1985 | See Source »

...Army, took eleven hostages, including the Turkish Ambassador's wife and teenage daughter. To escape capture, Turkish Ambassador Coskun Kirca leaped from a second-story window, breaking an arm and a leg and cracking his pelvis. He lay briefly in the line of fire until a police officer could drag him to safety. Finally, police persuaded the three men to surrender. The attack was an attempt to force Turkey to acknowledge responsibility for the 1915 massacre of an estimated 1 million of its Armenian minority. Said an Armenian community leader in Toronto: "The 1915 genocide has been ignored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Siege for a Forgotten Cause | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

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