Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Closed in 1954, it was abandoned to the winds and vandals for more than two decades, then reopened in May as a national park. There have been no repairs. The paint is peeling from the walls. A stone wall shows a gaping wound where thieves smashed through to steal the copper piping. The grimy corridors echo the shuffling footsteps of today's slightly awed visitors passing through on the five-times-a-day guided tour...
...lung, 64, who likes to spend his afternoons writing poetry and practicing calligraphy, has just won another smashing victory on the battlefield. After five years of struggle against rebellious tribes in the mountains of Szechwan, the Emperor's troops laid siege to the rebels' main stone fortress, constructed cannons on the spot and in March forced it to surrender. Ch'ien-lung's armies, which earlier defeated the Mongolians and Tibetans, have by now expanded his empire by some 600,000 square miles, notably in Sinkiang. He thus rules more land than any past Emperor...
...meeting with Secretary of State Kissinger, the racial tensions that seethe just beneath the surface of South African life exploded in Soweto, a ramshackle, overcrowded satellite town for blacks on the outskirts of Johannesburg. In three bitter days and nights of wild rioting and skirmishes between club-wielding, stone-throwing blacks and heavily armed police, at least 100 people were killed and more than 1,000 were injured; only a handful of the victims were white. The turmoil spread to at least seven other segregated black townships surrounding South Africa's largest industrial city. At week...
Some witnesses claimed that police had provoked the conflict. A black reporter for the Johannesburg Star saw a police officer pick up a stone and hurl it into the crowd. Then, he said, "some students began picking up stones. Shouting 'Amandhla [power],' they moved haltingly toward the police. A black police sergeant was explaining to a group of parents that there would be no trouble, that the children weren't fighting, when an officer opened fire...
...finance, General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 in government, Charles U. Daly, vice president for government and community affairs, in politics. With the possible exception of Steiner, these men are at Harvard for only a few years. A UHall administrator says pointedly, "Jobs as Faculty administrators are not a stepping stone to something else outside the University," and that too is a big difference from Mass Hall, where Champion and Daly could hold posts in a future Carter administration. Such a move might seem a step down at UHall, Dunlop's example notwithstanding--not that a politician could find much...