Word: roadblocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tried to obtain a social center "time and time again, but some roadblock has always come up," Thomas J. McDonnell, president of the GSC, said this week, adding that graduate students need a central gathering place because of the decentralized structure of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS...
Trouble in transit, got through the roadblock...
...University "remains neutral" on the debate over the big business provision, he added, saying, "That doesn't affect our interests even indirectly--except as a political roadblock...
Scott advises students "to be suspicious of anything unusual." In the Third World, for example, where official police roadblocks are common, it is not difficult for terrorists to get weapons and government uniforms. But it is hard for them to get police cars. "That could be the tip-off," Scott warns. "Look at the vehicle in the roadblock. In the Middle East or Italy, if a van, baby carriage or wheelchair appears in front of you, you can be statistically assured you are being attacked...
...confronted by a man pushing a rack of clothes across a downtown street in Pittsburgh was suspicious enough to gun the car onto the sidewalk, smashing several parking meters in an escape attempt. It was not an attack. Luckily no pedestrians were injured. Though trying to drive around a roadblock is the worst thing to do - it exposes you to broadside fire - the chauffeur's startled boss gave him a $5,000 bonus and paid for the parking meters. -By Robert C. Wurmstedt