Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also lobbied in Washington for ratification of the SALT treaty. At a private dinner with six Senators and four Congressmen who are undecided about SALT, he warned that rejection of the treaty would seriously set back détente, which he called "vital for a rational world." Schmidt also spoke strongly in favor of the treaty at two public appearances in the U.S., including one at Harvard, where he received an honorary degree...
...soon as the Pope stepped from his plane he knelt to kiss his native soil, then bussed a little girl in traditional dress who handed him a bouquet. Obviously moved, John Paul spoke of "my native land, to which I remain deeply attached by the roots of my life, of my heart, of my vocation." Poland, he told the group at the airport, "through the course of history has been linked with the Church of Christ and the See of Rome by a special bond of spiritual unity...
...boycott cut class attendance about 50-60 per cent. About 450 students marched around the River Houses, and the crowd increased to about 700 when Elizabeth Sibeko, United Nations representative to the Pan-Africanist Congress, Guinier and others spoke on the steps of Pusey Library...
...face yet another controversy in March over the issue of the University's investments in corporations operating in South Africa. Ninety-three Faculty members signed a petition calling on the University to divest of its South Africa-related investments, and many spoke out against University policy at a Faculty meeting. Kenneth J. Arrow, departing Conant University Professor, said in a letter to the Faculty Council that the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) last year overestimated the cost of divestiture of stock in companies doing business in South Africa. The ACSR said the costs of divestiture would range from...
...debate over the library does not appear to have harmed the school. It dissuaded one speaker, an industrialist, from coming to the K-School, but many other controversial figures disregarded the commotion and spoke at the school anyway, Allison says. And Jackson points out that the school does not appear to have lost any donations because of the controversy. Two years ago, the K-School adopted a more organized fundraising method to raise $25 million, and has already raised about $16 million, much of it during this controversy-filled year...