Word: exits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...questions from the BBC and held a hastily arranged televised briefing at the White House to announce his new arms initiative. For their part, the Soviets showed signs of new flexibility about their own proposals, suggested they might halt work on a controversial radar facility and offered an exit visa to Yelena Bonner, the ailing wife of Soviet Dissident Andrei Sakharov...
Exiled to Gorky since 1984, Bonner was recently granted an exit visa to travel to Siena, Italy, for an eye operation. Following her stay in Siena, she will come to Boston for treatment of a heart condition, Yankelevich said yesterday...
...alternative is to submit the Guide to official review by a committee of professors and administrators each year. Such a process would merely impart a different bias and cripple the book's credibility once and for all. As Ozment commented, "The first 10 people to exit the T at Harvard Square would be more objective than any committee of the Faculty...
...Commission of Inquiry (COI) have come up with remarkably similar conclusions about what happened at that protest. Both reports found that students formed a blockade (be it active or passive) in front of the Lowell House Junior Common Room to prevent a South African diplomat's exit. They also found that Harvard Police acted entirely on their own in deciding to form a "human battering ram" through the blockade to free the diplomat...
...pending exit visa is probably a move "to prepare public opinion in favor of the Soviet Union before the summit [conference between Reagan and Gorbachev in Geneva this November]," said Baird Professor of History Richard Pipes...