Word: interes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reason is probably the friction on campus among racial and ethnic communities. World of last year's increase in inter-group racial tensions certainly made its way beyond the Square. The cancellation of the minority student pre-frosh weekend last year may have sent the wrong message at the wrong time. And the fact that pre-frosh weekend happened to take place at the height of last spring's problems certainly didn't encourage prospective Black first-years to choose Harvard over another school--a competing institution that not only may have offered a more positive interracial environment...
...come close to terrorizing the populace into capitulation. Guzman's arrest not only halted that momentum but, more important, it gave the government's anti-guerrilla campaign a welcome boost. "In a struggle like this one, morale and will decide who wins," said U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Bernard Aronson. "Perhaps this capture provides what Peru needs most: hope and confidence that it can prevail...
...Moscow after seven months spent in asylum there. Only a small crowd of supporters were on hand as he left for Berlin, where he can expect to stand trial on 49 charges of manslaughter. The indictments stem from the deaths of East Germans trying to flee across the old inter-German border, a zone that Honecker ordered fortified with mines and trip-wired "scatter guns" in the 1970s. The communist leader's extradition was the result of months of arduous negotiations between Germany, Russia and Chile, and it finally came about after personal talks between German Chancellor Helmut Kohl...
...amount of planning could have predicted the unexpected bouquet Ross Perot would throw conventioneers when he cited a revitalized Democratic Party as one reason he was dropping his campaign. Just before 11 a.m. on Thursday, strategist James Carville bounded into Clinton's 14th-floor suite at the Hotel Inter-Continental to announce that Perot was about to hold a news conference. Still dressed in his running shorts and tinkering with his acceptance speech, Clinton jumped up and turned on the television. "He was a little overwhelmed," reported an aide...
...placed in shelters, homeless migrants have been sent packing, and law enforcement has been beefed up. Officials have also started some ambitious environmental projects, chief among them the cleanup of Guanabara Bay. The project will cost $667 million, $450 million of it to be lent by the Inter-American Development Bank; it would be the largest environmental loan the bank has ever made. The plan includes the construction of six sewage-treatment plants and two solid-waste recycling plants and the reforestation of the eroding banks of the rivers that feed into...