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This year, when the graduate school's student marshalls began kicking around possible graduation speakers, they shot high. Heads of state, former presidents--and President Reagan--were discussed. Why not shoot for the top?--that seemed to be the prevailing attitude, recalls one person involved. One faction favored an invitation to Pierre Trudeau, noting that this June would mark 25 years since the Canadian Prime Minister received his M.A. in government from Harvard in 1946. Other suggestions included Oriana Fallaci, Andrew Young, Jimmy Carter, Waiter Mondale, Howard Baker and numerous others. (Henry Cisneros, the Kennedy School alumnus recently elected mayor...
Agca first told one story, then another. After his arrest, he said that he had been trained by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (P.F.L.P.), the hard-line Marxist faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization led by George Habash. In Lebanon, a spokesman for Habash told TIME: "We know nothing about this man. We have never heard of him before. He has no connection with us." Indeed...
During those years, however, Peres also made some powerful enemies, whose vindictive animosity has plagued his political career. His arms-buying forays in Europe often edged into diplomacy, irritating then Foreign Minister Golda Meir. As a Knesset member in 1965, Peres helped to found the Rafi faction of Ben-Gurion loyalists that defected from the Labor Party for three years...
...papacy moved temporarily to Avignon. Clement V, a French Pope who was elected by a French faction, thought his court would be safer there than in Rome. Toward the end of the 14th century, Gregory XI returned to Rome, but it took 445 years to retrieve all of the documents from Avignon. There are obvious gaps around 1527, when Rome was being plundered by the armies of Holy Roman Emperor Charles...
...Poland seemed so close to the brink. The union-government dialogue that had repeatedly staved off outright confrontation in recent months was sputtering. Party Boss Stanislaw Kania branded the union challenge "an invitation to suicide." Fears rose that the government might impose martial law, especially if the hard-line faction in the Central Committee took over...