Word: rulings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also better equipped to deal with the world. Dukakis believes in the rule of law, and he favors negotiation over chest-beating. He even speaks the language of much of the rest of our hemisphere. Central to his vision of the world is a commitment to human rights. Dukakis would make South African apartheid a target, and he would not continue aid to the contras...
Last week the Federal Aviation Administration proposed a rule requiring airlines to shore up their older 737s by replacing the 7,200 rivets on each plane's fuselage. "It's time to fix design weaknesses rather than continuing to inspect for flaws," said Anthony Broderick of the FAA. "It is a fundamental shift in our way of operating." Safety experts predicted that the ruling would eventually be extended to other aircraft that are 25 years old or older...
After turning over their tickets, the students were stopped by a Harvard police officer. The officer cited a rule which prohibits any political materials "other than pins" from being displayed at the stadium. Mr. Morris then proceeded to leave the stadium with the signs. When Ms. Rottenberg tried to re-enter the stadium, the same officer stopped her again and told her that she could not enter the stadium with the bag of t-shirts she had. When she told him that she wasn't going to do anything with them in the stadium and that she didn't have...
...there is no such rule, the Harvard police officer involved should be instructed not to interfere with peaceful people entering the stadium in the future simply because they are carrying political materials. Also, it would behoove the officer and the administration to publicly apologize to the aforementioned students. This ought to be done in The Crimson, the community's newspaper...
...such a rule does exist, it goes against Harvard's own stated policies and established law. The April 14, 1970, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Resolutions on Rights and Responsibilities reads, in part: "The University must affirm, assure and protect the rights of its members to organize and join political associations, convene and conduct public meetings, publicly demonstrate and picket in orderly fashion, advocate, and publicize opinion by print, sign and voice...