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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many others are not so sure. In fact, the newly elected Board President, former State Department official John C. Whitehead, has said that he does not expect divestment to come up on the Board agenda at all this year. And Whitehead, who has served on the Board for the past four years, probably has as good an understanding of how the Board works as anyone...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Toward Non-Issue Overseers | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

...last time the Overseers directly opposed a Corporation decision was in 1948, when several conservative overseers opposed a tenure offer extended to Walburg Professor of Economics Emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Toward Non-Issue Overseers | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

Boston University Assistant Director of Sports Information John Veneziano was named Harvard's new Director of Sports Information on June...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Veneziano Named Harvard SID | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

...mounted on lampposts, rooftops and entryways along streets foreigners frequent. The SCOOT system, made by a British firm and purchased partly with development aid, was purportedly installed as part of a traffic-control system to count vehicles. The cameras were also secretly counting contacts between foreigners and Chinese, as John Pomfret, the A.P. correspondent expelled last week, found out. The Beijing State Security Bureau documented its charges against him with, among other evidence, photos of Pomfret and a source sitting * in his car outside a Beijing hotel; apparently the pictures were taken from a rooftop across the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Brother Was Watching | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

...real danger, however, was that foreign press crews might continue to disseminate truthful information, blackening the Chinese government's careful whitewash. At midweek officials charged two American correspondents, Alan Pessin of the Voice of America and John Pomfret of the Associated Press, with violating martial-law restrictions, and gave them 72 hours to leave China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Deng's Big Lie | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

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