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What the Kurds are demanding is regional autonomy with a Kurdish legislature and executive council, a proportionate share for Kurds of all revenues, oil royalties and foreign aid and, finally, special Kurdish army units with the sole right to garrison Kurdistan. The Iraqi government last week stiffly rejected the Kurdish memorandum, offering them instead only local self-government in a restricted mountain area that would have excluded virtually all major Kurdish population centers...
Stalwart Republican. Douglass ended his youthful autobiography just when he was becoming famous. He joined the fiery William Lloyd Garrison's band of abolitionists. A powerfully built man with a great shock of hair and a sonorous voice, he was the best orator of the lot. When the Fugitive Slave Law was passed, enabling slaveowners to recover their runaways, Douglass thundered: "The only way to make the law a dead letter is to make half a dozen or more dead kidnapers." His lecture tour of Britain was cred ited with helping to keep Britain from recognizing the Confederacy during...
...militancy, Douglass was a practical man. When Garrison denounced the U.S. Constitution and urged the dissolution of the Union. Douglass broke with him, fearing that slaves would be helpless if left to the mercies of the South. He hoped to abolish slavery by the ballot and became a stalwart of the Republican Party, later helped to swing the Negro vote to a series of Republican Presidents. He was finally rewarded with the post of Minister to Haiti...
...David Brandling-Bennett '64, of Lowell House and Los Angeles, California, has received the Joseph Garrison Parker Prize. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences awards the prize annually to the outstanding undergraduate who intends to enter the field of medicine...
...sailed on to Alexandria undisturbed. With an advance guard of only 5,000 men (out of a total force of 50,000, including sailors), Napoleon landed through the surf on a remote beach and advanced on Alexandria by night with neither cavalry nor artillery. Taking the garrison by surprise, he captured the city with only an estimated 200 casualties...