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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rondeau is optimistic and says that if they do succeed, a university wide union would be stronger than one confined to the three schools across the river...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: The State of the Union | 4/4/1984 | See Source »

...Speaker of the House, then to the president pro tempore of the Senate, then to the Secretary of State, then down through the Cabinet. It was according to this law that Speaker of the House Carl Albert was, for almost two months in 1973, in line to succeed Nixon after the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew. Nixon appointed Gerald Ford as Vice President under the terms of the 25th Amendment, ratified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alexander Haig | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

...beat them." The words fear and guts are very important in the major's vocabulary. "The guerrillas' intention is to capture me alive. Two guerrillas who were in charge of kidnaping my mother and who now work with me have told me so. They will never succeed. I have six bullets in my revolver: five for my attackers and the last one for me." When I tell him that if he wins the elections, the U.S. may cut off military aid to El Salvador, he shifts his shoulders. "Then it will take us a little longer to defeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democracy Among the Ruins | 3/26/1984 | See Source »

...trend, like satire, can't succeed with an ignorant audience. During the early 70s, for instance, when citrusscented toiletries were the rage, some un-with-it shoppers exasperated cosmetics counter workers by whining, "But I don't want to smell like a lemon!" Likewise, future generations will scratch their heads over today's Heavy Metal chic, which makes its wearers look like walking chain collisions...

Author: By Margaret Y. Han, | Title: Outside In | 3/17/1984 | See Source »

...Harvard Republican club argues that the tradition has broken down. He portray's a "left wing monopoly of political thought and discussion" that frustrates "true political discussion and interplay of ideas." Such monopoly makes a mochery of academic freedom, forcing the student to "regurgitate know-jerk radicalism to succeed in exams." To remedy such abuses, Mr. Lagon recommends that professors adopt a "balanced" approach in their teaching. Our response is two-fold; we find to evidence of a left wing monopoly at Harvard, nor can we find in the call for "balance" anything more than a disguised attempt at censorship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Censorship? | 3/10/1984 | See Source »

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