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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Class of '82 registered on a cloudy Cambridge Monday in September, boasting the lowest sex ratio ever. One thing that failed to greet them was The New York Times, but cockroaches were present in full force, infesting dorms around campus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stability and Change | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

Benjamin said the junior Faculty members would not take a position on the committee proposals until Rosovsky outlined the specifies involved. "We greet such an idea with extreme skepticism," he added...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Council Meets With Afro-Am Junior Faculty, May Create Temporary Governing Committee | 5/18/1979 | See Source »

...Iowa last week, another group of homeless refugees found sanctuary in a new land. There were not many relatives to greet the 196 Vietnamese "boat people" as their chartered jet from Malaysia landed in Des Moines, but their expressions of joy and hope were much like those of the Soviet Jews. Tran Qui Son, 26, had fled Viet Nam by boat with his wife and two young sons after the Communist regime had forced him to close his appliance repair shop. They floated to Malaysia, where they huddled with 60,000 other refugees awaiting a new home. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Yearning to Breathe Free | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

About 300 Colorado protesters, led by Daniel Ellsberg '52, had trained for weeks in a plan to blockade three entrances to the plant. However, about two dozen federal marshals and security guards from Rockwell International were waiting to greet them at the plant's east and west gates and at a railroad spur leading into the facility. Ellsberg was arrested at the railroad tracks, just as he had been while protesting against the plant exactly a year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Demonstrators Rally At Nuclear Facility | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

Residents of Kampala crowded the streets to greet their "liberators," climbing on Tanzanian tanks, looting shops and beating to death stragglers from Amin's army...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rebel Troops Enter Ugandan Capital | 4/12/1979 | See Source »

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