Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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About 40 delegates to the Harvard National Model United Nations Conference currently meeting in Boston yesterday walked out of a keynote speech by Ian D. Smith, the former prime minister of Rhodesia, protesting his presence at the event...
...protesters later drafted a letter to the Secretary General of the Model U.N., Larisa R. Wright '87, accusing the conference organizers of "extremely poor and myopic judgment" in inviting Smith to deliver the keynote address...
Baker also criticized the Model U.N. for "knowingly bringing Smith to the conference in a clandestine fashion" and not informing the participants in advance about Smith's appearance...
...Model U.N. is an annual fourday conference during which college students from around the country assume the roles of representatives of different countries and debate policy issues...
...Model U.N. Secretary General Wright noted that Smith's views will be balanced by those of Ambassador J.M.J. Legwaila of Botswana, who will deliver the conference's closing speech on Sunday...