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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...page study, which took six months to prepare, surfaced just one week before UNESCO's executive board was scheduled to discuss the proposals of its Western members for improving the organization. The U.S. has announced it will pull out of the agency at the end of 1984 unless UNESCO changes its ways. The U.S. says UNESCO has a pro-Third World, anti-Western bias. A withdrawal by the U.S., which contributes roughly one-fourth of UNESCO's budget, could lead to financial collapse for the agency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: United Nations: More UNESCO trouble | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

However, several listeners assailed SYE's interpretation of divestiture, responding that pressuring American companies to pull out of South Africa is vital for reform because American made military goods and computers are helping the white minority government enforce apartheid. Damon A. Silvers '86, a member of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee and the Endowment for Divestiture, charged that SYE, a small, radical Trotskyism group, was using the apartheid issue "for their own sectarian, totalitarian ends." Silver added that Black workers in South Africa approve of divestiture as a way of ending apartheid...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: Group Leads Demonstration Amidst Political Feuding | 9/21/1984 | See Source »

...which sports a reservoir and six ponds, to Harvard partially because he was fond of the University. But Stillman mostly chose Harvard because he thought he could trust the University to care for the land and provide the necessary stable environment for forestry and botany experiments. Now Harvard would pull out the money to keep the site in proper shape, and the consortium would have to already endowed so that everyone could use it for free...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Question of Trustworthiness | 9/20/1984 | See Source »

...first Brandeis goal followed a long throw-in into the packed Crimson penalty area, which then ricocheted off a forest of legs pull Crimson keeper Matt Ginsburg. The Judge took advantage of a mixup in the Harvard defect to add the second goal...

Author: By Kevin Carter, | Title: Booters Drop Opener at Brandeis, 3-2, Crimson Dominates, Judges Prevail | 9/20/1984 | See Source »

...solar system passes through the central plane, it may collide with one of the massive dust clouds. While the cloud itself would have little graviational effect on the earth or the sun, its gravitational pull would. The strong lure would perturb the Oort cloud--a vast spherical shell of trillions of icy particles which surround the solar system...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Tracking the Death Star | 9/20/1984 | See Source »

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