Word: panning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With matching coats and plaid bags, the world champion Chinese table tennis team arrived in Detroit last week to start a two-week, nine-city good-will tour-the return engagement of last year's visit of the U.S. team to Peking. Their chartered Pan Am 707 carried two Mandarin-speaking stewardesses and bore the legend Friendship Clipper in Chinese characters. Delegation Leader, Chuang Tse-tung, 30, a three-time world champion (1961, 1963, 1965), promised that the team would concentrate on "friendship first, competition second...
MASSACHUSETTS HALL--"This kind of an action, if it is successful, is going to precipitate a lot of others." Randall Robinson of the Pan-African Liberation Committee said yesterday in the first press interview held in Massachusetts Hall since the occupation began Thursday morning...
...occupation of Massachusetts Hall by Afro and the Pan-African Liberation Committee went into its fourth day this morning as rain-soaked supporters continued an around-the-clock picket line in front of the building...
Ewart Guinier, chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department, donated $500 to the students occupying Mass Hall. In a statement issued at the time of the donation. Guinier said he supports "the reasonable demands of the Pan-African Liberation Committee" and opposes the Corporation's decision to retain its Gulf Oil Corporation stock...
Silkscreen posters advertising the strike meeting curiously, though according to some antiwar planners inexplicably, began to focus on action against two wars--one in Vietnam, one in Angola where Gulf has substantial investments. And when dawn broke Thursday, two dozen black students from Afro and the Pan African Liberation Committee took the initiative, seizing Massachusetts Hall. There they remain, in what is by far the longest building occupation in Harvard's activist era. University Hall, brutally cleared by waves of police after students had held the building for hardly 15 hours in 1969, provides little comparison for the Mass Hall...