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After 45 years in the foreign service, 27 as Foreign Minister and nearly eleven in the Politburo, Gromyko is at the height of his power. Long respected and reviled as the Soviet Union's most dutiful diplomatic technician, he has become not only the custodian of Moscow's foreign policy but probably its chief architect...
...arrested for obstruction at Orgreave's main gate. He was quickly released on bail, but the reaction was nonetheless swift and brutal. Within hours, more than 3,000 demonstrators had gathered, and police charges were meeting stiffer resistance. Lengths of wire were strung across the road at the height of a horse's fetlock and a rider's neck. Telephone poles were ripped down and used as battering rams against police lines. The authorities and some miners blamed the renewed violence on hardline Marxist infiltrators...
Only a handful of my classmates went on to graduate school, and most of my classmates got married upon graduation, usually to worthy graduate students whom they would dutifully help, through law or medical school by working as researchers or secretaries. The height of their career aspirations, if they had any, was to be a researcher for Time. A job at Macy's was considered rather glamorous, too, and also gave one a chance to live in New York, an experience considered de rigeur among certain of my classmates. It all seems a millennium ago, and the Radcliffe...
...closer tabs on the 6,500 already there. In addition, the government is expected to take a careful look at the 270 Libyans enrolled in a British Airways engineering course at London's Heathrow Airport. Heathrow was the scene of an unexplained bomb blast last month during the height of the siege at St. James's Square...
...divestiture on the spot. We criticized President Bok and Vice-President Steiner rightly for refusing to set up such meeting, which we feel would be in the interest of the entire. Harvard community. Again, had Peter Howe bothered to come by and speak with the "mob" which at its height umbered twenty-five students, he might are reached a different conclusion. One should be wary of relying solely on the Crimson for one's facts...