Word: generality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...going to take it lying down anymore." Despite such rhetoric in last week's floor debate, the Senate approved the joint U.S.-Japan FSX jet-fighter project, provided the President agrees to an accompanying resolution that would clip its wings slightly. The Byrd amendment requires that U.S.-based General Dynamics get 40% of the estimated $6 billion project, the portion that includes confidential American jet-engine technology, while Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries would get the rest...
Professor Kilson's commentary, it seems, is full of an unjustified, outspoken ignorance which plagues Harvard University and the academic community in general. Often those who have developed an expertise in one area feel justified in extending their commentaries beyond that which they can factually support. Though commenting on our values and beliefs, he has never asked us about our family backgrounds, be they bourgeois or not. And, more important, those things are irrelevant. Bourgeois aspirations are not a factor in Black Greek affiliation. However, a major factor in the resurgence of Black Greeks at Harvard is the failure...
Journalists usually report the news, not make it, but every so often a story helps make history. Last week TIME received the Overseas Press Club award for the best general-magazine article for its interview last October with P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat (in the judges' view, "almost surely one factor in the opening of a new U.S.-P.L.O. dialogue") and for the cover story seven weeks later on the start of that dialogue. Also honored was photographer Chris Steele-Perkins, who received the Robert Capa Gold Medal for capturing "the chaos and panic provoked by a terrorist attack...
INDICTED. Richard Secord, 56, former Air Force major general who was Oliver North's chief intermediary in selling weapons to Iran and diverting the profits to the contras; on nine counts of lying to and obstructing congressional investigating committees; in Washington. Each charge upon conviction carries a maximum sentence of five years' imprisonment and $250,000 in fines. Secord was convicted in a Virginia court of drunk driving. He was given a suspended 30-day jail sentence and ordered to pay a $200 fine...
Once hailed as the most liberal Communist leader in Eastern Europe, Janos Kadar has become a political pariah in his own country. Following his ouster as General Secretary last May after almost 32 years in power, Kadar, 76, remained party president. Last week Kadar was stripped of the largely ceremonial job and expelled from the Central Committee...