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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Flynn has not formally announced his candidacy, but said in 1983 that he would only seek two terms of office...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Flynn to Face Little Opposition in '87 Race | 3/3/1987 | See Source »

...place that encompasses a wide range of views even in the same History department, as between Professors Womack and Pipes. This is the nature of pluralism and toleration. Since Professor Womack has been a beneficiary of that hospitality, he should be the first to defend that rather than seek to impose a form of thought control on the University. But, perhaps, if Professor Womack did realize that, he might not be a Marxist and an apologist for Castro...

Author: By Adam Kadmon, | Title: MAIL | 3/3/1987 | See Source »

...Academic Affairs Committee, headed by Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57, will look for ways to add courses on American minority groups to the curriculum and seek out visiting scholars to teach the courses, College officials said...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: New Committee to Study Ethnic Courses Offerings | 3/3/1987 | See Source »

...from a tree. Anti-Klan experts say the huge fine could dismantle the complex financial network of the U.K.A., the oldest, largest (2,500 members) and most secretive of the various Klan groups. More important, in the words of Klanwatch Director Bill Stanton, the verdict sets a "precedent to seek damages from the corporate Klan behind the perpetrators" of racial incidents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: Paying for Racism | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

Berri, who helped engineer the 1985 release of 39 American hostages aboard a hijacked TWA jetliner in an apparent exchange for Israeli-held Arab prisoners, proposed a wide-ranging plan. Offering to negotiate with the seven terrorist factions that have taken captives, Berri said he would seek freedom for all 24 foreign hostages kidnaped during the past two years. Doubts were immediately raised, however, about Berri's chances of success. His Syrian-backed Amal militia is a bitter rival of the Iran-supported Shi'ite fundamentalist groups that are believed to hold most of the hostages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hostages Stalemate in a Tormented Land | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

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