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Jewett certainly doesn't think so either. For while he is uncertain how people will react to him, he is certain that his primary goal is to develop a good relationship with students...
...Netherlands was the first country to react to a John Paul visit with violent physical hostility. However, it was generated by a fringe assortment of anarchists, homosexuals and punk youths. Street brawls by youths in the tiny nation have become such a fixture that the Dutch hardly seem to notice them anymore. The ugliest episode began in Utrecht with protesters who had assembled under a legal permit. Several dozens of the 1,000 marchers sang, "We're going to kill, kill, kill the Pope tonight," while pelting police with rocks, bottles and smoke bombs. At one point, a bottle, cans...
Soviet citizens barely had time last week to react to rare television footage of General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev mingling with people on the streets of Leningrad, trading one-liners and urging greater work discipline, when they were asked to digest another, more jarring piece of news: a sweeping crackdown on a national pastime -- drinking. The decree raises the drinking age from 18 to 21, delays the daily opening of liquor stores by three hours, calls for a gradual cut in vodka production and an eventual ban on port, which the Soviets consume in huge quantities. The measure also prescribes harsh...
...pullout of American companies if we will not listen? Contrary to popular belief, oppose apartheid is not necessarily to oppose American companies investment: there is no monolithic liberal position on the divestiture question--arguments exits on both sides-- and to have no gauge of how South African might react hardly helps us make an information decision. Similarly the Corporation will not be persuade to sell stock in IBM by the violent action against them, but only through argument stronger than those which oppose divestment...
...Harvard students are not the only people who respond in this fashion. People are usually confused when confronted by my difficulty, as they would be by any unusual situation. Knee-jerk wit is a common reaction; however, the results of my unscientific survey reveal that more Harvard students react this way than do a random sample of those not blessed with Centers phones...