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...Allen Counter, associate professor of Biology, last month sent the BSA a letter charging that the film is an example of "insensitivity and a flagrant disregard for the feeling of our black students and staff." The film shows an African woman performing clitoridectomies on young African girls...
When, in rare instances, Burns encounters a continuing "flagrant violation" with an undergraduate, he usually contacts the proctor or senior tutor, "and then I get good results...
...prove to be a watershed in Moscow's dealings with the Third World. In Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, foreign ministers representing the 35 members of the Islamic Conference last week condemned the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan as a "flagrant violation" of international law. The delegates, who represented such traditional friends of Moscow as Algeria, Libya and the Palestine Liberation Organization, also demanded "the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all Soviet troops stationed on Afghan territory" and suspended Afghanistan's membership in the international Islamic organization...
...spokesman for Lord Soames, Rhodesia's British caretaker governor, last week charged Mugabe's Mozambique-based forces with flagrant cease-fire violations. Soames extended the state of emergency, which was due to expire this week, for another six months. From...
Soames showed far less tolerance toward other, more serious cease-fire breaches last week. Reacting to the reported infiltration of 600 to 700 ZANLA insurgents from Mozambique, he ordered Rhodesian troops into action along the country's eastern border. In another flagrant cease-fire violation, ten guerrillas attacked a white farm near the northwestern town of Sinoia, precipitating a clash with Rhodesian paramilitary police that left seven insurgents dead. The Commonwealth monitoring force suffered its first combat-related casualties when a Land-Rover detonated a mine, injuring a British soldier and a senior Patriotic Front field commander. The precarious...