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Finally, it is vitally important that these two men, Reagan and Andropov, meet. I don't want them to meet just to shake hands, but they can meet to agree on a process whereby more negotiations will take place on arms control and other matters. But because it is the right thing, my instincts tell me it will happen...
...Marines assigned to guard the U.S. embassy. There were no U.S. casualties but one bystander was killed. A group calling itself Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility and warned that unless all "foreigners," particularly the U.S. and France, withdraw from Lebanon by Jan. 1, the terrorists will "make the earth shake beneath their feet...
...Christmas Eve to drive them up and down Fifth Avenue so that they might enjoy the store displays. These were the sorts who would gather in the park and sing. Once the caroling was finished, they would not weep or embrace or say sentimental things, but merely nod and shake hands and wish one another well...
...advance, the week's activity had an air of urgency. Repeatedly frustrated in its efforts to solve the Lebanon crisis and the Palestinian dilemma, and with U.S. Marines still exposed to terrorism, shelling and sniper fire at the Beirut airport, the Administration felt it was time to shake up the ingredients in the Middle East mix. Its thin but persistent hope was that greater tragedies could be averted and a semblance of stability restored...
Black workers have approached Black faculty, staff and students throughout the University to rally support for the workers' efforts to get a fairer shake from Harvard. After all, the conflict between seniority and affirmative action is a flashpoint of the struggle for racial justice in the context of fiscal austerity and job cutbacks. If we Third World students were up in arms about job opportunities for relatively privileged legal scholars, then we are righteously even more animated by the stark spectacle of Black workers and their families literally losing their livelihoods...