Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Iran's goal is to "establish Islamicfundamentalism as the basis of a new order" andKhadafy seeks "to expel his enemies from theMiddle East, be they Arabs, Jewish, or American"and to establish himself as a "Pan-Arab leader,"McFarlane said...
...treatment of aliens seeking sanctuary in the U.S. In fact, the Administration has made it plain that it takes a more sympathetic view of the persecution claims of anyone fleeing a Communist country. The Justice Department is considering a new interpretation of the 1980 Refugee Act that would establish a "presumption" that aliens fleeing a Communist regime have a well-founded fear of persecution that would meet the requirement for political asylum. The ins's Rivkind, who stopped deportation proceedings against eight Nicaraguans in Miami last week, apparently jumped the gun on the policy shift, since Attorney General Edwin Meese...
...defense claimed that the Government had violated the First Amendment rights of the defendants by sending informers into their religious meetings and secretly tape-recording their conversations. The defense also managed to establish that the defendants -- a nun, two priests, a minister and seven lay workers -- were hardly criminal types. Whatever the verdict, the trial apparently has strengthened rather than discouraged the sanctuary movement. Partly because of the publicity surrounding the case, 16 U.S. cities and the state of New Mexico have proclaimed their territories sanctuaries for anyone fleeing political repression or armed conflict in any Central American nation...
...order to create a "distinctive intellectual community," the Massachusetts Institute of Technology needs to establish a new liberal arts program, according to a recent internal report...
...what we can be. Perhaps we must resign ourselves to subsistence as well-intentioned Harvard students who trample upon the dignity of those human beings whom we try to help, just as we trample upon the grass of Harvard Yard. We must forgive our ignorance as we try to establish an "open campus"--a place of spirituality, freedom and peace--by placing large boards against trees in Harvard Yard and posting advertisements all over them to welcome our less enlightened brethren...