Word: halle
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...refusal, and this is the first time I have heard either of them. He says "the immediate concern was that our space was inadequate to accommodate this event: Ms. Murray had spoken of an audience of 150 (or perhaps more), and the seating capacity of our lecture hall is 144." This in fact had never been brought up during the month or so we were booked to hold our event at the School. If I had known it was seen as a problem, I would have gladly put a ceiling stipulated by the School on conference registration...
...wasn't just the Central Committee; it was the regional party officials who were shouting for it," says Antonin Mlady, a factory foreman and member of the newly formed Politburo. Finally the Politburo overruled Jakes and called a meeting. On Friday, Nov. 24, the session opened in an austere hall in the Stalinist-era Party Political University on the outskirts of Prague. There, Jakes tried one last tactic to save his job: he proposed a new law that would permit freedom of assembly, thus legalizing the demonstrations that had brought Prague and other cities to a standstill...
...such a moment. They agreed that Adamec would publicly call for reform while Strougal used his influence within the Central Committee to oust Jakes and other hard-liners in the Politburo. ) Strougal rallied a core group of 20 moderates within the Central Committee to their cause. "In the main hall, everything looked calm," says a participant. "Behind doors all around it, people were negotiating like crazy, shouting and threatening...
Universities should use academic disciplinary measures as a means to inhibit racism, a University of Wisconsin law professor told a group of about 50 people yesterday afternoon at a panel discussion on the complexities of free speech in Boylston Hall...
After a hard day's work, even the Board of Overseers, Harvard's alumni-elected governing body, gets taken out to dinner. Sunday's meeting, which was attended by newly-elected Overseer Desmond M. Tutu, was followed by a four-course meal in the Divinity School's Andover Hall. Although Tutu was unable to attend the gala affair, one inside source who spoke on condition of anonymity said the other overseers were treated to butternut squash curry soup, salmon with dill and red pepper sauce, glazed carrots, new red potatos and salad with raspberry vinaigrette dressing...