Word: thursdays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unanimous vote, the council passed Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci's resolution condemning Mobutu, who is slated to speak at the Kennedy School of Government Thursday. The bill, which passed with no debate, charged Mobutu's government with numerous human rights abuses and said that he had denied basic political rights to the people of Zaire...
...Thursday, enough candidates had filed to fill all the seats in every house but Currier and Mather. The one-day extension filled the slates in those houses, and yielded almost 50 more candidates in other houses...
Mobuto Sese Seko Nkuku wa za Banga (just plain Mobuto to his friends)--a man who tortures students for complaining about inflation, a man who throws loyal government ministers in prison for sneezing improperly, a man who likes to watch a good hanging now and then--will speak Thursday at Harvard's very own Institute of Politics on the subject, "Peace and Progress in Southern Africa...
...last Thursday, the yellow school bus was bound for schools in Mission, Texas. Approaching at a crossroads was a soft-drink delivery truck. The truck and bus suddenly collided, and the bus veered into a gravel pit filled with water 20 ft. deep...
...Wednesday a Coast Guard patrol of St. Croix reported "a complete breakdown of authority," and six cutters headed for the island to evacuate panicked vacationers. But the restoration of order did not begin until Thursday with the arrival of 1,200 U.S. military police, federal marshals and FBI agents -- the first time Army troops have been used to quell a civil disturbance since the riots in Washington following the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. Most of the escaped prisoners have been recaptured. What little there is left to protect is being guarded. St. Croix...