Word: exertions
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...meantime, Saudi Arabia is trying to exert some influence over Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who began the tanker attacks earlier this year as a way of forcing Khomeini to enter into peace negotiations. But Saddam Hussein will not lift his siege of Iran as long as Khomeini seems set on toppling Iraq's government...
...People want to be on the broadcast," Lord says. And Lord describes the force "Nightline" can exert. He recalls that during the Hostage crisis, the program invited the Iranian charged affaires and Dorthea Morefield, a hostage's wife, to appear together. "In a live interview, she pressed the charge about why mail wasn't delivered to the hostages. We learned later that within one week after that show the mail was delivered through the process of confrontation...
...skeptical over whether universities should exert pressure on other institutions to use our judgments," he said, adding that selling a "vast portion of the University's portfolio will have no practical effect on the South African regime...
Where alternate ways to exert pressure to end the great crime of the war are cut off, how better should the students act against a system of society which has failed itself by failing the poor, the Blacks, and also the students? John C. Gray '30 Helen L. Gray...
...Africanist students took over Massachusetts Hall in 1972. By now everyone should recognize that the Corporation is intransigent--so intransigent that Derek Bok merely reprinted his statements of 1978 in the Gazette in the spring of 1983. If students are serious about divestiture, they are going to have to exert power by boycotting the ACSR, by supporting the Endowment for Divestiture, by holding protests at alumni fund drives on campus, by gaining alumni endorsements, by boycotting classes, by picketing administration buildings and by otherwise being as uncooperative as possible. If Harvard really intends an ACSR that is more than...