Word: speaker
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...plan to protest--and the similar plans that many share--upsets many students, regardless of their opinions on General Colin Powell as Commencement speaker choice. In meetings, editorial columns, letters to The Crimson and dining hall conversations, countless students on either side of the Powell debate have urged us to keep our opinions to ourselves during the Commencement cermonies...
...Peter Kelly, in his letter the The Crimson (April 26) seems to miss the point of the protests against General Colin Powell's selection as Commencement speaker. Kelly writes of the gay community," [t] they are saying that Gen. Colin L. Powell's presence acts as an affront to homosexuals more than it does as a source of pride and admiration especially, but not exclusively, for Blacks at Harvard" (italics added). This is not precisely why I, as one member of the diverse "gay community," oppose Powell's selection...
Last year's Commencement speaker, Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, was a pro-abortion activist whose extreme views were offensive to many Harvard students, but we on the Right were mature enough not even to consider shouting her down...
...Powell is a distinguished and respected general, the youngest chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in history and is, of course, the first Black American to hold that position. We join the majority of our fellow students in being honored and delighted to have him as the principal speaker on Commencement Day. Tom Woods, Vice-President Harvard-Radcliffe Republican Club Daniel E. Zumpano, President Harvard Conservative Club
...report have been made public, but TIME has obtained the entire 25-page translation. Elsewhere in the report are disclosures about efforts to recruit South Vietnamese politicians as agents, planned assassinations and programs to collect and publish information on American "crimes." Because there are references to a "speaker," the Russian report may well be an inexact transcription of an oral briefing, which could account for the inflated number of POWs...