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When protesters grab a seventh floor office in Holyoke Center, police shut off access to the Yard by locking gates. Demonstrators staged the seven-hour sit-in to protest Harvard's $8.8 million invested in the Shell...
...seater khaki-and-brown F-111 attack bombers began streaking off runways at Lakenheath and were joined by five EF-111 electronic jamming planes whose mission was to disable Libyan radar capabilities. Flying at 30,000 ft., the force rendezvoused over southern England and refueled four times during its seven-hour flight through darkened skies. After the first refueling, seven planes, brought along as a reserve in case of airborne malfunctions in the others, broke out of formation and returned to base...
...During a seven-hour board meeting at Eastern's Miami headquarters that culminated in the decision to sell, the atmosphere was tense. Before the vote was taken, Borman shouted at Bryan, "I'm going to tell the 41,000 employees that you destroyed this airline." Bryan's retort: "I'll tell them that you did it." To outside observers, it was no way to make a rational business decision. Says John Simmons, an Amherst, Mass.-based management consultant: "It didn't have to end in a shoot-out at the OK Corral...
Ellis Island, the most ambitious network mini-series of the season thus far, starts out with a reasonable plan: to pluck four individuals from the huddled masses who came to these shores and tell their stories. Unfortunately, the seven-hour drama (based on a novel by Fred Mustard Stewart, who also had a hand in the teleplay) seems less interested in chronicling the immigrant experience than in salvaging the wretched refuse of scores of bad Hollywood movies...
They don't want a return to Yankee unilateralism or intervention." In each of his initial stops last week, Shultz tried to tailor his diplomatic role to the prevailing circumstances. During a seven-hour stay in El Salvador, the Secretary emphasized the Administration's firm support for the March 25 presidential election, which Washington views as a crucial step in ending the country's civil war. Helicoptering with his entourage into the capital of San Salvador (in unmarked troop carriers seconded from the U.S. forces on maneuvers in neighboring Honduras), Shultz was the guest of Provisional President...