Word: rebuff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This high-handed rebuff is particularly disturbing because--as President Bok so often reminds demonstrators--the University is founded on the principle of the free exchange of ideas. The Corporation should not flee from open discussion...
...representatives limited themselves to a statement declaring that they "shared the United Kingdom's sense of outrage" at the El Al incident and at the fact that "state agencies" were involved. Though Syria was never mentioned, Greece would not even go along with this mild rebuff...
Second, Heiskell's ill-considered rebuff preempted a constructive response on the part of the Corporation. And finally, his remark that the Corporation would not "meet with anybody who wants to meet" not only was an insult to the groups that requested a meeting--among them the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee, the Undergraduate Council, the Radcliffe Union of Students and the Endowment for Divestiture--but also indicates how little interest the Corporation has in input from the community...
...Managua the Sandinistas announced they would try Hasenfus in a political tribunal scheduled to begin this week. Charged with violating laws guaranteeing order and public security, he could face 30 years in prison. The announcement was a rebuff to U.S. officials who have dismissed the Anti- Somocista People's Tribunals, as they are formally known, as kangaroo courts. According to the America's Watch Committee, a New York City-based human rights group, just one of the 559 defendants who came before the tribunals in 1985 was acquitted...
...Liberals thus rejected a painfully crafted compromise between Steel and their alliance partners, the Social Democrats, advocating a continued role for Britain's independent nuclear force. The rebuff could not be overlooked by the Social Democrats, whose party was founded five years ago by former Labor Party members, largely because of their opposition to Labor's call for unilateral disarmament. Social Democratic Leader David Owen said he was shocked by the vote, which he called a "very serious blow." Steel admitted that the outcome of the vote was nothing less than a "breathtaking misjudgment." With the two parties split...