Word: gag
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last two hundred years, the men who rule Harvard have not. Declare "Weinberger stinketh..." or "Duarte reeketh..." with the pungent odor of burning flesh, and you may be tossed out of school. In the wake of the Weinberger protest the Faculty Council, Bok & Co, hope to enact a new gag rule and disciplinary code for political protestors...
MEMBERS OF THE HARVARD COMMUNITY got a first-hand glimpse of the Reagan Administration's rage for secrecy last week when University officials made clear their opposition to the Pentagon's latest gag rule. Daniel Steiner '54, vice president and general counsel, led a chorus of denunciation of the Defense Department's plans to censor the publication of unclassified research and said Harvard would not accept funds governed by such a restriction...
...proposed regulations, for one thing, are highly impractical. The research level is far too early to judge the potential sensitivity of any given information, so the guidelines would be difficult to enforce. Officials would have to use the gag in an arbitrary manner...
...city ever understood pork, it is Washington. One more joke about the Bay of Pigs (Hogs in Tampa Bay, get it?) and the nation's capital may gag on its own smirks. Take pity. It has been so long since anything in Washington worked with the decisiveness of the Redskins that the power fans are a little silly...
...Paulson's son Michael, 28, was ambushed by two men in front of his Savannah home one night last month. The younger Paulson pulled out a .22-cal., two-shot derringer magnum and killed one of the men. The second was arrested shortly afterward. Police recovered handcuffs, a gag and a tape cassette with a message requesting $1.2 million in ransom...