Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dartmouth in particular, Freedman faces the task of invigorating a somewhat disenchanted faculty and defining the intellectual mission of the school. Freedman's predecessor, David T. MacLaughlin, announced his resignation six months after the faculty wrote a report criticizing his five-year presidential term...
...Minority Students Alliance compiled a report criticizing the University for failing to aggressively recruit minority faculty. Black law students held a 24-hours sit-in at the dean's office to protest inaction on minority faculty hiring...
...among white youths since 1985, when the South African Defense Force, 106,000 strong, stepped up its intervention in the Angolan civil war and moved into riot-torn black townships at home. Only a handful of young men out of the annual draft of some 34,000 failed to report for the 1984 call-up, but the following year the number of evaders jumped to more than 1,500. Since then the Defense Ministry has refused to release the statistics...
...argue that he could not enter the army because it upheld an illegal racist system. Bruce was sentenced to six years. Two weeks later, 142 university graduates and students declared that they would refuse to accept induction or, if they had already served their initial two years, to report for further active duty. The End Conscription Campaign, which advocates working in hospitals and performing other types of community service as alternatives to enlisting in the military, did not sponsor the mass act of defiance. Vlok blamed the group anyway. "South Africa's future will be in jeopardy," he said. "This...
...bets. The Pittsburgh Steelers' owner, Art Rooney, really the city of Pittsburgh's Art Rooney, died last week at 87, still penciling the racing form. Rooney shared his hugest track windfall with his brother, a China missionary who unknowingly repaid him in soybeans. Based on a Hong Kong weather report from Father Dan, Art made another big score in the commodities market. A saloonkeeper's son, he knew a remarkable variety of athletic pleasures. As a schoolboy football star, he basked in the attention of the Notre Dame coach Knute Rockne, though he went to Duquesne and Georgetown. Both...