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...rebels recently dealt some major blows to Mengistu's troops, which are among the best-equipped in Africa, courtesy of $500 million yearly in Soviet aid. Tigre-led forces are 80 miles from the capital and may sever its links with the country's major port. The government is conscripting women and children and threatening to divert all development aid to mobilization. At gunpoint or with threats of confiscating ration cards, soldiers dragoon crowds for "patriotic" rallies. Mengistu narrowly missed assassination two months...
...process of reconciling ethnic identity with the pressures of assimilation is an "ongoing" one, Asian-American playwright David Henry Hwang said at a speech in Sever last night, pointing to phases of "evolution" in his own work...
...committee proposed a three-part solution. Under the recommendation, the university would use political pressure to change the military's policies toward gays and lesbians. If that failed, the university would try legal action. And as a final option, the university would sever its ties with ROTC...
Jordan's new Parliament is the first to reflect Hussein's decision last year to sever the country's administrative and legal links to the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Half the members of the previous Parliament had theoretically represented the West Bank; all members of the new Parliament are residents of the East Bank...
When new Assistant Professor of History Ellen Fitzpatrick taught her first regular course at Harvard this week, the registrar expected the class would fill a 12-person seminar room in Sever Hall...