Word: obstructionism
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The office of the dean of students should be playing a leading role in fostering the development of undergraduate activities. Instead, this ruling, like the ruling against Asian-American minority recognition, can only be seen as an obstruction of the independent voice of student organizations. Not only as dues-paying...
Judge Hubert Pinsseau has finally dismissed the case, not because of the government's obstruction but because he concluded that no wrong had been done. The Canard had no right to privacy, Judge Pinsseau ruled, because the privacy law covers only private residences. Furthermore, he noted, the intruders had...
In all of this, Arafat's P.L.O. retains a disturbing potential for obstruction, though perhaps less visibly this year because of P.L.O. involvement in Lebanon. If Arafat does not receive the American recognition he seeks, his options will be reduced; there will be a return to violence and terror...
Former Governor Ronald Reagan, 64. Examined annually since 1957 and found "unusually well." Suffers from nasal allergy for which he takes antihistamine drugs. No new bursitis in left shoulder in recent years; 1966 operation removed obstruction to urinary flow from enlarged prostate gland.
Of all the men around former President Richard Nixon, probably none was more hated than Chuck Colson, top hatchet man and tireless inventor of dirty tricks. There was a sense of national satisfaction when he pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and served seven months in jail. Now, in a...