Word: honored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the Western powers were debating his country's fate, the flamboyant Mobutu was busy with a rescue operation of his own. Clad in battle fatigues and accompanied by an honor guard and a brass band, he appeared again and again at Lubumbashi airport at the head of a cavalcade of Jeeps and Mercedes sedans. He greeted Zambia's visiting President Kenneth Kaunda, and China's Foreign Minister Huang Hua, who had flown to Shaba to emphasize Peking's opposition to Soviet-Cuban influence in Africa. On his visit to Peking, President Carter's National...
...they are tardy or cut class; vandalism, drug use and academic failure are grounds for expulsion. Students may come with low reading skills, but they must read at twelfth-grade level to graduate. Adams himself sometimes accosts students as they go home: "If you're not on the honor roll, you can't afford to walk out of school without any books...
...down the trip to New Haven because he did not want to leave Harvard before completing his review of undergraduate education. Yale instead chose A. Bartlett Giamatti, a 39-year-old professor of Renaissance literature, who had already been immortalized by having a moose-head trophy named in his honor and placed in one of Yale's undergraduate dining halls...
Professor Emeritus Erik H. Erikson will nab one of the precious parchments. Abe Beame and John Havlicek have both declined the honor this time around...
...guess might be made that Patrice Jacobs sees in Affirmed a chance for vindication of both men in her life-for the attainment of the one goal denied her father and a way of bringing honor to her husband, who has been attacked so often in the past. That would only be a guess, of course. One sign of good breeding, in a horse or a human, is self-control, and Patrice Jacobs Wolfson controls emotions as carefully as Stevie Cauthen controls her horse. She will say just this: "Aside from having good health, my husband and I want only...