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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suggestion of a group of Boston-area China scholars, many seniors wore white armbands over their black Commencement robes to express solidarity with China's young dissenters...
...council, responding to anti-apartheid activists, initially created E4D in 1983 to allow students to express their displeasure with the University's policy of holding investments in South Africa. Money donated to E4D is kept in an escrow account until Harvard divests of stock in companies that do business in South Africa...
However, all the channels were blocked off for them to voice their own opinions. Any move they took to express themselves had been regarded as interference with the government and conducive to political instability, thereby meriting suppression...
...SCANDAL. It's all here: the loveless romances of Christine Keeler with a Soviet spy, a Jamaican drug dealer and John Profumo, Secretary of War in Harold Macmillan's Cabinet. This express tour through swinging London plays like News of the World headlines set to early '60s rock 'n' roll...
...informal council composed of senior Foreign Ministry officials and invited guests. The four- to five-hour sessions touch on issues ranging from ambassadorial appointments to terrorism. "You can speak your opinion now and be certain it will be heard," says Deputy Minister Anatoli Adamishin. "Even my subordinates can express disagreement with my views. In fact, criticism is better received than words of praise." Unlike James Baker, Shevardnadze does not shun career officials in favor of a small clutch of aides; as a Soviet diplomat puts it, he "prefers to go directly to the specialist without regard to rank...