Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lieutenant in a tank regiment before he entered the priesthood, the Oxford-educated Kent became head of the C.N.D. in 1980. He led a drive that has expanded the membership from 3,000 to 50,000-in addition, there are at least 200,000 politically active sympathizers-and mobilized effective mass demonstrations against the Bomb. Last month C.N.D. members and their allies held hands to form a 14-mile chain between Greenham Common in Berkshire, where the first U.S. cruise missiles are scheduled to be installed later this year, and Burghfield, site of Britain's nuclear warhead factory...
Protesters have also charged that the demographic breakdown of the think tank is unsuited to the broad educational goals of Stanford as a university...
Official response to the protests has been carefully noncommital. While an official probe into the activities of the institute's think tank is unlikely, a "study" of the relationship of the Institute and the university is a possibility, William Kimball, Chairman of the university's Board of Trustees, said in the Stanford Daily last week...
...often in disguise, Han's friends come to rescue him: first that robotic dynamic duo, See-Threepio (C-3PO), the gold-plated neurotic with a proper English accent (Anthony Daniels), and Artoo-Detoo (R2-D2), who looks like a tank-type vacuum cleaner but has the heart of a lion. Then Solo's bearlike copilot Chewbacca, the 7-ft. 5-in. Wookie; the feisty Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher); and Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams), the smooth-talking leader of The Empire Strikes Back's Cloud City. And finally the hero, Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), who already has many...
...severe strains besetting the 34-year-old Atlantic Alliance have long been a concern of TIME'S editors, both in print and out. Last week they acted on that concern by convening 45 representatives from seven NATO countries, including politicians government officials, academics and think-tank analysts, for a three-day Atlantic Conference '83 in Hamburg, West Germany. Explains Editor-in-Chief Henry Grunwald, who led TIME'S delegation of 26 editors, writers and correspondents: "We all know that the survival and strength of the Atlantic Alliance, military, political, economic, are of the utmost importance to world...