Word: respondents
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...houses of Parliament that the U.S. would take the lead in carrying out the Bosnian peace plan. In Dublin, the President told the Irish parliament that ending the rivalry with Northern Ireland is part of "the tide of history." And in Germany he gave cheering U.S. soldiers permission to "respond immediately and with decisive force" if they were threatened with attack...
...LEADERS ADDRESSING THEIR troops last Saturday: in Germany Bill Clinton tells the 1st Armored Division, slated for Bosnia duty, "If you are threatened with attack, you may respond immediately and with decisive force." That line receives the loudest whoops and applause of the day. Meanwhile, in Vlasenica, a town 80 km northeast of Sarajevo, General Ratko Mladic, the military leader of the Bosnian Serbs, speaks at a ceremony inaugurating a new brigade. "We cannot allow our people to come under the rule of butchers," he says. "Those who bombed us have now infiltrated like lambs, saying they want to protect...
...month deadline, Shalikashvili says simply, "One year is sufficient time to create this military balance. Therefore, I am convinced that we will be able to leave in about a year." That may be true, but providing arms to one side in a centuries-old conflict and then promising to respond ferociously if the other side retaliates is behavior that doesn't look like peacekeeping--it looks like fighting...
Other examples of Harvard's refusal to address student and community concerns abound. The administration has failed to respond to persistent demands for a minority student center and drags its feet on hiring more female and minority professors. This is not to mention calendar reform, an issue which enjoys broad student support. When the Undergraduate Council sponsored a resolution in favor of calendar reform, the administration did not seriously review the policy. Administrators and students can disagree, in good faith, about the substantive aspects of these issues. However, there is a fundamental flaw in the administration-student relationship: the administration...
Eviction Free Zone organizer Stephen Meacham, who attended the Phillips Brooks House rally in Harvard Yard yesterday, said he sees a parallel between the PBH rally and this evening's planned vigil. "The same rationale which leads Harvard to sit on its students leads them to respond to the city council in the way that they did," Meecham said...