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...scholarship for studies at a military academy in Peru, he changed paths quickly. Upon graduation in 1962, the youth signed on with the Panama National Guard as a first lieutenant. He supported the 1968 coup that brought General Omar Torrijos to power. In 1970, after helping to quash a coup attempt against Torrijos, Noriega was made the head of Panama's intelligence services...
...California girls are walking by in bikinis when he could be in Cambridge, waiting in nine inches of snow and slush for a shuttle bus ride? Who wants to see Division I football in his own backyard when he could be at Harvard watching the national championship chess team quash lesser rivals? Who wants to go to a school whose most famous alumnus is Herbert Hoover...
...only private banners, then which upset the neighbors? Or, don't tell me, only political banners upset the community, so Silber, in his infinite concern, has taken it upon himself to quash them...
Vanunu, 32, was last seen in London on Sept. 30 after giving the London Sunday Times information that allegedly proved Israel has operational atomic weapons. Senior Israeli officials, anxious to quash reports that Vanunu had been kidnaped on British soil, insisted he had left the country "of his own volition." Said Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir: "We did nothing that could be considered a violation of British law." If convicted of violating Israel's Official Secrets Act, Vanunu could be sentenced to 30 years in prison...
...main concerns--one President Derek C. Bok has often expressed unease about--is the growing sponsorship of academic research by government and private industry. He correctly fears the inherent dangers of academics becoming dependent on such sources of money. Nader's purpose in forming Harvard Watch is not to quash the intellectual integrity of Harvard professors. Rather, he is working to help preserve...