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...between the leadership in Moscow and a broad-based popular movement at home, the Armenian Communist Party has tried to equivocate. In June its newly elected first secretary, Soren Arutyunyan, along with the Armenian Supreme Soviet, defied Moscow's wishes by petitioning the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. to reopen the Nagorno-Karabakh question. (The enclave was assigned to Azerbaijan by Joseph Stalin in 1923.) But Arutyunyan also declared that the Yerevan demonstrators were "not supported by the broad masses." In reply, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev chided an Armenian delegation that had come to the Kremlin to plead the cause...
...intense public interest went beyond the issue of racial discrimination. What seemed to hang in the balance was the larger question of whether a conservative court was emerging -- one that not only would shape the future but also might reopen other past cases, such as the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which granted women the right to have an abortion...
While Hoffman said that he hoped the club would reopen by the middle of November, he said that it was getting more difficult for local music clubs to move around Cambridge because of zoning restrictions...
...fraternity's organizing efforts may have political ramifications that go beyond Harvard. The fraternity's efforts to reopen a chapter at Yale is a project run by the group's headquarters. The Harvard chapter is being organized by students, not by the head office, says Alpha Delta Phi Executive Director William E. Millard...
...Finance Committee as standard policy has always refused to pay for postage. After a contradictory vote not to pay postage for the South African Solidarity Committee AND the revelation by the Finance Committee of new information about apparent increased funds available to HCOJ, Council member Andreas Beroutsos moved to reopen debate on the HCOJ grant to allow further financial explanations by their representative. Mandery began the ensuing fiasco by first asserting numerous times to questioning Council members that passage of the motion required a two-thirds majority, only to be corrected later that a simple majority was needed...