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...Timmons last night defended his company from the tenants' accusations. "This is normal business, and we have a job to do," he said. "When a person doesn't pay his rent, we have to evict...
...nation's ninth largest city has no public or private emergency shelters for its estimated 3300 to 6200 homeless people. In July, the city passed an ordinance making it a crime to sleep or lie down on public property; shortly before Reagan arrived, the rule was used to evict 30 homeless people from under a bridge during a rainstorm. Phoenix has also declared all garbage in alley-ways to be city property, and police say they will fine people foraging through garbage dumpsters for "stealing city property...
WHEN HARVARD PRESIDENT Nathan M. Pusey '28 called in the police to evict demonstrators occupying University Hall on April 10, 1969, then-dean of the Law School Derek C. Bok called the occasion "the saddest day of my life." The students' decisions to seize the offices of Harvard's deans as a means of protesting the war in Vietnam had met general disapproval from moderates, but the nightmare of brutality inflicted by police in the core of the Yard forced a painful reappraisal of the University's relations with its students and its role in society...
...assumption of certain duties in exchange for certain inalienable rights is a simple enough idea in theory. The application of this principle however, provides university administrators with endless moral and practical dilemmas. Would President Bok, for instance, call in the police to evict students occupying University Hall? Judging by his reaction to the 1969 upheaval and his patience when students protesting Harvard holdings in Gulf in April 1972 occupied his own office for a week, he would not have. Legally speaking, though, Bok might be obliged to arrest and press charges against student trespassers. The fact that he didn...
...return, Israel received a pledge of peace and use of the Suez Canal. To stick by his Camp David signature. Begin has been forced to evict and evacuate the ultra-religious settlers in the Sinai and give them substantial economic compensation. As he is pushed from the far right, so he is pressured by the opposition Labor party which opposes his stance on "Judea and Samaria," the occupied West Bank which now has at least one million Palestinians living under Israeli military and administrative rule. While coping with internal pressures-Israeli is, after all, the only democracy in the region...