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As Cambridge residents, we are terrified to think that when we really need them, Cambridge police officers ignore our pleas for protection. As Harvard students, we are just as outraged by our belief that Harvard officers are straining their student-related work by providing this security detail--especially given the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: `Protect and Serve' Whom? | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

More vocal than the calls for political and military reform are pleas for social change, especially for women. With an increasing number of women attaining university degrees, complaints of meager career opportunities are rising. Because Wahhabism forbids the free mixing of the sexes, educated women are mainly confined to jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: Lifting The Veil | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

While the University is doing ethical house-cleaning in its investments, it should take the simple step that students and anti-apartheid leaders have urged for years: divest itself completely of all investments in companies that do business in South Africa. The University has dragged its feet on the issue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Worshipping the Almighty Dollar | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

So far, so good. Since the morning Saddam Hussein sent Iraqi troops storming into Kuwait, the Soviet Union has been cooperating with the West in opposing him. Moscow voted yes four times in the United Nations to condemn Iraq and impose stiff sanctions. Soviet diplomats have repeatedly urged Iraq to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: The Tortoise and the Hare | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

While an estimated 300 Iraqi tanks prowled the city, an additional 50 surrounded the Emir's palace and the nearby U.S. embassy. But the Emir, Sheik Jaber al-Ahmed al-Sabah, and his family were able to flee to Saudi Arabia by helicopter. Though the invaders had quickly seized Kuwait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq's Power Grab | 8/13/1990 | See Source »

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