Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...formed to defend the University against students hell-bent on destruction of the school. It was broadly defined precisely because it needed the widest possible mandate to destroy the anti-war, anti-ROTC movement during the late sixties and early seventies. With few minor changes, the "war time" powers of the CRR remain today...
...With the minor exception of the Lowell House blockade, the student pro-divestment, anti-apartheid movement has been conducted in the best traditions of the Rev. Martin Luther King. The use of the CRR to quash the movement and turn the debate away from its proper place--University conduct--is Big Brotherism of the most cynical and small-minded sort...
Quijano had offered several times to testify before the Agrava board. Each time, however, she failed to appear for an interview. Last December, when she was arrested and charged with five counts of minor fraud, she was publicly identified as the missing witness in the Aquino case. But she returned to hiding after her release from government custody and the dismissal of all but one of the charges...
Stun guns have been controversial since they were introduced ten years ago, however, and recent events have shown why. Five New York City police officers last week were indicted on charges growing out of use of these devices to torture four men arrested on minor drug charges. Mark Davidson, 18, unveiled in court a back and abdomen laced with dozens of "fried flesh" marks, as his lawyer put it. The allegations so outraged Police Commissioner Benjamin Ward that he forced the retirement or transfer of some 20 supervising officers, including the department's third highest official...
...Watergate ordeal cast up a score of minor and major villains, from third- rate burglars to reprobate White House movers and shakers. But for every two Watergate wrongdoers, the affair also produced a Watergate hero. No one was more celebrated or more fondly regarded than North Carolina's Sam Ervin, Democratic chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities. "We could wind this up pretty soon if everyone would tell what he knows," drawled Ervin, as the hearings got under way twelve years ago, "but if we continue to play hide-and-seek, then it could take...