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...Shilts said, tried to get a single mother, accused of being a lesbian, to inform on others by threatening to have her child taken from...

Author: By Samuel P. Brown, | Title: Military Called 'Anti-Gay' | 3/9/1991 | See Source »

...inform Ms. Kerrigan that the Nazi flag also symbolizes--for fascists and Nazis--"a heritage of character, dignity and courage." But in our epoch and in our place (here at Harvard College), both the Nazi flag and Confederate flag symbolize two instances of the modern world's cruelest institutions and events. This latter symbolism should, I submit, take precedent over Ms. Kerrigan's school-boyish, immature and romantic identification with Southern feudalistic and racist traditions. Martin L. Kilson Professor of Government

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Townsend Made Right Move | 3/9/1991 | See Source »

...seemed that Bush was still hesitating whether or not to make the final decision for a military strike against Iraq. He did not rule out and actually spoke in favor of our holding a second meeting with Saddam. But he stressed that it must have a limited focus: "to inform Saddam about the uncompromising position of the U.S." However, and this too was quite typical, Bush immediately added, "If a positive signal should come from Saddam, it will be heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Inside Story of Moscow's Quest For a Deal | 3/4/1991 | See Source »

Forty-five minutes later, during lunch, Gates told me, "The President has asked me to inform you that you can decide for yourself what time you want to leave." I understood this to mean that there would be no continuation of the talks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Inside Story of Moscow's Quest For a Deal | 3/4/1991 | See Source »

...East German intellegensia on which Borneman focuses is Regine, a film-maker from East Berlin. She dealt with the government-imposed isolation from the West by making the best of her situation. Regine worked for the state, producing documentary films about socialist life. This occupation allowed her to inform the masses. Such work, she concedes, gave her "a touch of the self-congratulatory condescension intellectuals feel in indulging the less gifted." Though such thinking seems arrogant, it represented the dedication of Bourneman's intellectuals to socialism, though not to the state itself...

Author: By P. GREGORY Maravilla, | Title: Fading East German Society | 3/1/1991 | See Source »

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