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...defense of our principles and aims." The British government understood that such rhetoric comes easily to Libyan revolutionaries, but it also knew that it could not rule out the possibility of a Libyan act of ultimate defiance. In the meantime a coroner's court was told that Constable Fletcher had died of stomach wounds from shots fired by a high-velocity weapon, and that eyewitnesses had seen smoke and flames emanating from the barrel of an AK-47 automatic rifle thrust from an upstairs window of the embassy. For most of last week, her constable...
...week was a tense and painful one for the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The British public was outraged by the murder of the policewoman, Constable Yvonne Fletcher, 25, and by the thought that the Libyan "diplomat" who had fired an automatic weapon into a crowd of anti-Gaddafi demonstrators should go unpunished. Even as the diplomats of the two countries were preparing to fly home on Friday afternoon, the funeral of Constable Fletcher was being held at the 13th century Salisbury Cathedral in southern England...
However, most feel the method and quality of teaching is strong and appreciate the flexibility of the MPA program. Besides taking K-School courses, the Masons can arrange to study at MIT's Sloan School, Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy or any of the Harvard Graduate Schools as well as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Center for African Studies at Boston University Such flexibility is necessary, some say, because the K-School does not have many of the courses they had wanted to study. "The flexibility of the program allows you to tailor...
...limits on the use of force. In the newer trend, lending aid to gain self-determination is accepted." For Marxist-Leninist governments, a double standard is even easier to achieve, since Communist ideology rejects non-Marxist forms of government. Says Alfred P. Rubin, professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy: "The Soviets can get away with major, minor or theoretical violations of international law because their power and standing in the world do not rest on a respect for legal niceties." The U.S., on the other hand, is usually held to a higher moral and legal standard...
...Crimson conducted a discussion last week with Meselson, Peter Ashton, Arnold Professor of Botany, and Stuart Schwartzstein, director of the Chemical/Biology Weapons Information project with the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Crimson editor Lavea Brachman moderated the discussion...