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...called paradise, was deeply embarrassing to the Cuban President. With the world watching, he had no choice but to grant them exit visas. Eight nations eventually agreed to admit 6,250 of the exiles; the U.S. said that it would take 3,500, the largest single group. To hasten the exodus, Costa Rica organized twice-daily flights from Havana to San José, where the refugees could then be screened and sent on to the other nations...
Mary Mubi, a member of the Zimbabwe African National Union and a graduate student at Boston University, said women within patriarchal societies hasten their liberation by taking direct action and assuming positions of power...
...regime's new expressions of support, the student militants turned their fire on Ghotbzadeh. In Communique 75, they accused him of "talking too much." Said the militants: "The Iranian nation should be ashamed to speak more than necessary to an enemy, particularly a filthy one like America." To hasten his fall from grace, the state-run radio, which until three weeks ago was directed by Ghotbzadeh, praised the students' criticism of him and declared: "There is no room for diplomatic games in our revolution." It was clear warning that Ghotbzadeh may face the same fate as his predecessor...
...Faculty members most likely to be receptive to women's studies are, obviously, women, but the number of women Faculty members is small and growing only very slowly. Walzer says the committee can do very little to hasten affirmative action, and she hopes the future of women's studies does not have to depend on women faculty members alone. "Men have long academic careers, and they reach junctures where they look around to see what new directions they can take," she says, adding that the women's studies committee has several men among 11 Faculty members...
...issue is not whether debate should (or could) be ended, but whether we as individuals should take steps to hasten divestiture and provide for a strong Afro-American Studies Department. This does not mean that we should uncritically accept whatever information the Coalition may feed us and blindly follow in their path. But the concrete demands which the Coalition is making are simple and well-publicized: divestiture and commitment to Afro-American Studies. One needn't follow any party line in order to protest on behalf of these issues. Protest can never put an end to debate, but debate often...