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When students took over University Hall 32 years ago this month, then-President Nathan M. Pusey '28 ordered 200 State Police in riot gear to clear the building. They did so with brutal efficiency, leaving students with dozens of injuries and the University with a lasting stain on its history. Three hundred students faced disciplinary action for their part in the takeover...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Administrators Weigh Options | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

...decided his best choice was to make for Lingshui, the closest airfield and one the F-8s had left only minutes before. Once the crew realized it was going to land in China, it began carrying out its "classified destruction plan," which parcels out the plane's most sensitive gear for erasure or destruction by individual crew members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spy Plane Finale: An 8,000-Ft. Plunge and a Tough Choice | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

...trust of his crew, and had the highest re-enlistment rate--65%--of any attack sub in the Pacific Fleet. And the skipper proudly allowed re-enlisters to commemorate their return in almost any fashion they wanted. Be it parachuting out of an airplane or floating in full dive gear in the ocean, Waddle would be along for the rite of passage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bitter Passage | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

When students took over University Hall 32 years ago this month, then-President Nathan M. Pusey '28 ordered 200 State Police in riot gear to clear the building. They did so with brutal efficiency, leaving students with dozens of injuries and the University with a lasting stain on its history. Three hundred students faced disciplinary action for their part in the takeover...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Administrators Weigh Options | 4/22/2001 | See Source »

...with the less than sunny atmosphere. The latest summit meeting place, a French-speaking city whose picturesque 18th-century old town was denominated as a world heritage landmark by the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization, will be fenced off and guarded by phalanxes of police in riot gear. Tens of thousands of protesters are expected to descend upon Quebec City to vent their spleen at capitalism, globalization and the evils of free trade and to demonstrate their conviction that the FTAA will make things worse instead of better. A minority have vowed to shut down the meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Summit of the Americas | 4/19/2001 | See Source »

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