Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...irony is that Arafat retains much of his former popularity with the Palestinian people. Late last week an angry throng of 2,000 Arafat supporters gathered near Tripoli, but rebels fired on the crowd, killing 25. Arafat remains the symbol of the Palestinian cause, and he still has the support of a clear majority in the Palestine National Council, the P.L.O.'s de facto parliament. But because of his indecisiveness, excessive caution and, most important, the heavy hand of Syria's Assad, Arafat has lost control of his fighting force...
President David I McLaughlin released a letter after the Cornell game stating that the incident betrayed an "insensitivity to segments of the community." He realfirmed the 1972 trustees" decision that "use of the [Indian] symbol [is] inconsistent with present institutional and academic objectives...
...degree of upperclass involvement in the incident has also been a major issue According to Dartmouth Review Executive Editor Peter Arnold, the administration had assured that each succeeding freshman class would be less dedicated to the Indian symbol after...
...poll taken two years ago the timberwolf symbol was the second choice among a list of alternatives to the Big Green, which replaced the Indian Gur! said that a majority of students has simply scratched out the choices and written Indian on the ballot...
...Allen Waxman, Chairman of the Undergraduate Affairs Committee which his now trying to resolve the symbol problem said it really doesn't matter what Joe Dartmouth thinks--the Indian symbolisn't coming back it's now a matter of mobilizing support behind another symbol...