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...entered the offices of the Science Center coffee shop at 6:45 a.m. and reportedly made "overt threats to the life" of the Greenhouse manager, who was tallying accounts in front of an open safe, said the University's Deputy Chief of Police Jack W. Morse...
...instant recognizability of their names. Do only such prestigious tenured professors make fitting advisors? Or do their names look great on the masthead? (That eleven of the twelve advisers are men and all of them white is, to be honest, more representative if Harvard then of the overt prejudices of the Forum's editors...
...Reagan Doctrine proclaims overt and unashamed American support for anti- Communist revolution. The grounds are justice, necessity and democratic tradition. Justice, said the President in his Feb. 16 radio address, because these revolutionaries are "fighting for an end to tyranny." Necessity, said Secretary of State George Shultz in a subsequent address in San Francisco, because if these "freedom fighters" are defeated, their countries will be irrevocably lost behind an Iron Curtain of Soviet domination. And democratic tradition, said the President, because to support "our brothers" in revolution is to continue--"in Afghanistan, in Ethiopia, Cambodia, Angola . . . (and) Nicaragua"--200 years...
...protect itself from foreign aggression. "Support for freedom fighters is self-defense," he said, and "totally consistent" with the charters of the Organization of American States and the United Nations. The President seemed to be building a legal case for Washington's continued use of covert--and maybe even overt--aid in conflicts that it deems the result of Soviet mischief-making...
...each other through romance. Even rock and roll and rhythm and blues, the ultimate expression of romantic attack, have been modified by the cooperative image of romantic attack, have been modified by the cooperative image of romance. One of the real secrets of hip-hop's appeal is its overt recognition that love is question of beating out your romantic rival and dazzling your lover...