Word: shrills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Durban gathering turns into a factional face-off, the hard-liners will probably come out on top. Growing increasingly shrill, the A.N.C. issued demands last April that De Klerk was certain to refuse, such as the firing of Defense Minister Magnus Malan and Law and Order Minister Adriaan Vlok. Though himself a moderate and the movement's peacemaker, Mandela last week sided with hard-liners by flatly declaring as nonnegotiable the A.N.C.'s requirement that an elected constituent assembly, rather than leaders of political parties, draw up a new constitution...
...allay immediate student fears, the police added regular walking patrols in the Yard, river and quad areas. Also, Johnson says, "we now have two full-time drivers on the escort service." Shrill alarms have been made available for $6 at Police headquarters, University Hall and Radcliffe Yard...
Deputy Chief of Police Jack Morse said that the alarms were being sold as the result of a recommendation by Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III that whistles and shrill alarms should be provided to the Harvard community...
Rhew said that Towne has been "especially receptive" to the council's concerns. "The idea of the shrill whistles will be tried for a year," he said...
...shrill sound emitted by the sirens is "ear busting," and can cause permanent deafness, Towne said, so they should not be used playfully...