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...Adams House roommate, J. Douglas Jamieson ’07, who is not an SAS officer, said he asked a security guard posted at Emerson Hall to order the Somerville activists to leave the site. The guard informed the activists that they did not have the required permit to distribute literature in the yard...
...Witness for Peace. The group was founded with a twin purpose: 1) to place U.S. protesters in the line of fire in Nicaragua, in the belief that their presence will reduce hostilities, and 2) to attract American citizens to Nicaragua in order, as a Witness spokesman puts it, "to permit them to learn about the consequences of U.S. foreign policy on Nicaragua." The Witnesses claim to be apolitical, but they are considered by Washington to be definitely favorable to the Sandinistas and hostile to the insurgent contras. Since its start in 1983, the group has sent about 1,300 people...
...images, usually created with plastic stencils and rollers dipped in whitewash, were the work of the International Shadow Project, a network of 10,000 volunteer painters in cities ranging from Penang, Malaysia, to Budapest, Hungary. Worldwide, some 300 project volunteers were arrested, but police in many areas chose to permit the effort. In New York, Landscape Artist Alan Gussow, who conceived the project, said he was "staggered" by the response. As she stenciled an image of herself and her husband near Wall Street in Manhattan, Artist Janna Josephson noted, "I want to make an impact, to startle people, to make...
...fewer in number, who are worried about reform in the cities. And I think their worries are not completely without reason. So our approach to their misgivings and worries is the same approach that we adopted seven years ago. We will let practice dissipate their worries and misgivings. We permit people to disagree. Our attitude toward those who have misgivings or worries is to understand them. Perhaps you ask why. It is because we believe that several years from now, they will become convinced...
...flamboyant Frenchman has been doing things differently since he arrived in California in 1982 looking for a job in the computer industry. A former mathematics professor at the University of Grenoble, he was bubbling over with ideas but lacked the crucial green card that would permit him to work legally in the U.S. Since no one would ask him for his work permit if he ran the operation, he decided that it was easier to start his own company. A single ad in Byte magazine for Turbo Pascal, a $49.95 program that he designed primarily for computer professionals, triggered sales...