Word: rus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...really don't have the right to play judge and jury and make a pariah out of someone who has by the University's procedures paid his dues," says Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) President Ann Pellegrini '86. Pellegrini says she opposed Swift's decision to distribute the leaflet about Dominguez...
Authorities say Whitworth was the man who last year posted three letters in Sacramento to the FBI. Two offered information about "a significant espionage system" in return for "complete immunity" from prosecution. The third letter indicated that the man, who signed the letters only "RUS, Somewhere, USA," had changed his mind about becoming an informant. Asked why the FBI had not followed up on the first two letters, U.S. Attorney Joseph Russoniello in San Francisco explained: "Not knowing who you're dealing with, whether it's Jack the Ripper or the greatest master spy since Mata Hari, an offer...
...Firm as his agent. But these passages make up a mere fraction of the book. As for the rest, one can only agree with a neighborhood hooker who unburdens herself to Wren after he escapes a bomb planted in his apartment by the Liberation Front. "I don't know, Rus," she says, "sometimes I think it oughta be better than this...
There was indeed no discussion at that "teach-in," because RUS adhered strictly to its format, which allowed audience members only to ask the panelists questions, not state contrary views or conflicting facts. Moreover, it is quite strange that, when 80 percent of Americans favor abortion only in the cases of rape, incest and threat to the mother's life, and when more women than men oppose abortion (as Gallup polls have consistently shown over the last 10 years), all three RUS panelists supported abortion-on-demand. Spitzer admits that there is a lack of consensus and disagreement...
Most importantly, no speaker at any time "openly admitted that an abortion kills a human being, but said that abortion must nonetheless remain legal." One member of the audience did express a view, and I'm sure many women feel similarly; that woman, however, was not RUS-sponsored. What the speakers did emphasize is that there is not now and has never been a national consensus, not an agreement among and within different religions, as to when human life begins i,e., at what point abortion can be considered killing a child. The point was also made that the real...