Word: marche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some time of the existence of Soviet troops in Cuba, what had not been known was the organization of those troops into a combat brigade. Clues and hints to that effect began appearing in the spring, as did reports that the number of Soviet troops was increasing. In March, for example, the National Security Council staff had asked the intelligence community for more information on Cuba. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski had speculated that there must have been more Soviet activity on the island than was immediately apparent, primarily because some 40,000 Cuban troops were in Africa...
...student group succeeded at raising the criticism and controlling the debate that climaxed when 3500 members of the University marched through Cambridge streets in the torchlight parade of the spring of '78. The heat from the march and from student opposition to Harvard's continued holdings of South Africa-related investments threatened to bring student dissatisfaction right into University Hall...
Nine student groups claimed at that time, and many groups still maintain today, that Harvard helps to sustain the South African government and its apartheid system by investing in corporations active in that country. A demonstration of more that 1000 students on the Pusey steps, their march to Holyoke center, and confrontation with President Bok on April 24, 1978 started widespread student support for the demands of the student groups...
...student response to the Corporation report was overwhelming--a torchlight march by 3500 through Cambridge streets and a demonstration that cordoned off University Hall for a day. But President Bok and the Corporation defended their decision by asserting that divestiture would be ineffective in shaping corporate policy in South Africa. Instead, Bok said the Corporation would more effectively influence corporate proactices in South Africa by investigating those practices and voting as a shareholder. Bok also asserted the Corporation would not invest in banks that failed to take moral issues into consideration when making the loans...
Officer Dan MacGilvray sat in his cruiser on the corner of DeWolf and Mem Drive on a cold March morning. An hysterical motorist jumped out of his Pontiac screaming that a car had just veered off Mem Drive into the Charles River. Within minutes, Sgt. Peter A. O'Hare and Officer Thomas Simas were groping about the turbid ice water for the submerged car door. They dragged one of the two women from the river and collapsed from overexposure. A month later they were to be commended for saving one woman's life. Not every day in the life...