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WHEN HARVARD PRESIDENT Nathan M. Pusey '28 called in the police to evict demonstrators occupying University Hall on April 10, 1969, then-dean of the Law School Derek C. Bok called the occasion "the saddest day of my life." The students' decisions to seize the offices of Harvard's deans...
The scene: Room 5110 of the Dirksen Senate Office building. The occasion: the first public meeting of the bipartisan National Commission on Social Security Reform to take place since the President and Senate Budget Committee called for $40 billion in cuts in the system over the next three years. The...
After an all-night session, the Senate last Friday morning passed by an 84-to-8 vote its version of the fiscal 1983 defense procurement bill. The measure leaves intact Reagan's request for two new nuclear aircraft carriers and $56 million to build chemical weapons. The House has...
The Falklands crisis is by far the most serious issue Pérez de Cuéllar has faced, and those who worked with him wondered how he would handle it. He is so self-effacing at times that on at least one occasion he was asked by a guard...
The pilgrimage to Portugal, which was also an official state visit, had begun in a festive mood in Lisbon the day before, when the Pope moved through cheering throngs in a vintage Rolls-Royce borrowed from an auto museum for the occasion. By the time the open car reached Lisbon...