Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHEN A YARD full of frenzied freshmen feels compelled to conduct sham polls of housing choices and spread anxious rumors about people being "Quincied," it signals loudly that something has gone profoundly wrong with the way Harvard runs its housing system...
Wacker says that Harvard has set up no special guidelines to handle AIDS patients in the university community. The director of the university's health services says that since AIDS does not spread in public settings or workplaces, there is no need to treat the disease differently or have the victim notify his employer...
Displaying a map of the region and an airfield photo from Nicaragua, the President charged members of the ruling Sandinista regime with selling illegal drugs to Americans, using their country as a terrorist command post and threatening the security of the Western alliance by seeking to spread revolution through Central America to the Panama Canal...
...pains not to demand the complete overthrow of a regime with which the U.S. still maintains diplomatic ties. In a speech last week, Shultz declared that Nicaragua could become "a Soviet and Cuban base on the mainland of Latin America, a regime whose consolidated power will allow it to spread subversion and terrorism throughout the hemisphere." Nevertheless, he offered a rational, carefully worded definition of the Administration's goals: "We want the Nicaraguan regime to reverse its military buildup, to send its foreign advisers home, and to stop oppressing its citizens and subverting its neighbors...
...principal contra army, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN), consisting of about 15,000 men, is spread among four bases north of Nicaragua in Honduras. Two small rebel bases lie just inside Nicaragua to the south, close to the border, and several camps and a base are in Costa Rica. Says Enrique Bermudez, the FDN's commander in chief: "Close to 70% of our fighting force has become confined to our camps, defending them on the one hand and awaiting supplies on the other." The main contra base, in the middle of the jungle 30 miles inside Honduras, has a cluster...