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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Minority students, including three from Harvard, boycotted the final session of the Little 11 intercollegiate conference in Philadelphia this weekend...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Minority Students Boycott Final Session Of Little 11 Intercollegiate Conference | 2/28/1979 | See Source »

More than 200 students from Stanford, the University of Chicago, and all the Ivy League colleges attended the four-day conference. At the final session, the delegates voted to accept the Third World Committee's criticism of the conference...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Minority Students Boycott Final Session Of Little 11 Intercollegiate Conference | 2/28/1979 | See Source »

Jacquin's Postulate. No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.−Anonymous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANA: Our Beasts and Burdens | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

Despite the tension at the beginning, both sides characterized the five hours of private talks as friendly, courteous and businesslike. The first bilateral session was held in the Spanish colonial Palacio Nacional, but it was just general and polite. The two Presidents got down to specifics the next day at Los Pinos, Lopez Portillo's official residence. Carter said he was ready to reopen negotiations over natural gas purchases in formal government-to-government bargaining sessions. Said LÓpez Portillo: "Let's get on with it." As for buying more oil from Mexico, Carter did not press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Battle of Toasts | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...closer to 60%. An industrial slump has idled half of plant capacity and pushed unemployment to 20%. There are daily blackouts of electrical power, and shortages of everything from margarine to light bulbs. Even traditional Turkish coffee is in short supply; replacements are tea and Nescafe. At a recent session of parliament, a fistfight broke out on the floor after an opposition deputy complained that "the streets are full of black market cigarettes"−to which the Customs Minister snapped back, "You probably have some in your pockets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Sick Man Suffers a Relapse | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

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