Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...persuade their kin to leave the colony. The visitors arrived in a chartered aircraft, an 18-seat De Havilland Otter, at an airstrip in Port Kaituma, six miles from Jonestown. They rode to the colony along a muddy and barely passable road through the jungle in a tractor-drawn flat-bed trailer. At Jonestown all were greeted warmly by a smiling Jones...
Foreign confidence is dwindling. American firms with Iranian operations are cutting commitments. The once bulging Hilton and Inter-Continental hotels are less than half full. The U.S. embassy in Tehran has drawn up mass-evacuation plans in case the troubles grow worse. Foreign workers have been quitting the country, and almost overnight Iran's five-star credit rating on the international capital markets has disappeared. Says one U.S. banker: "You don't lend when the tanks are in Constitution Square...
Harvard officials, not surprisingly, think otherwise. Thomas O'Brien, financial vice president, says the plan--which offers a minimum of 20 loans of $100,000 each this year, drawn from a $2 million fund--won't make a dent in a city the size of Cambridge...
...fighting-fire-with-fire schedule includes a sojourn to South Carolina next Monday and a Christmas vacation swing westward to face Stanford, Brigham Young, and Pepperdine. Sandwich those teams around the Rainbow Classic in Hawaii (Harvard has drawn Arizona State in the first round), add a Boston Garden date (against Boston College as part of a college doubleheader), sprinkle Holy Cross in for good measure, and you begin to understand wny even the most rabid Harvard hoop aficionado will settle for a .500 season...
...Responsibilities was set up by a joint faculty/student committee to deal with cases arising from a violation of the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities. Interpretation of the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities is a personal matter for every member of the Harvard community. The implications that can be drawn from the Resolution should not be translated into fact as presented in the November 20 article...