Word: topic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...major obstacle to winning independence for Namibia, the 318,000-sq.-mi. territory that remains under South African control in defiance of international resolutions, has been the continuing presence of 27,000 Cuban troops in neighboring Angola. The topic came up again last week when Chester Crocker, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, met with South Africa's Foreign Minister Roelof F. ("Pik") Botha in the Cape Verde Islands. Crocker reportedly relayed an offer from Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos to cut substantially the number of Cuban troops in Angola if South Africa agrees...
...Legend has it, a small group of students took over the Law School library one night in 1969, to protest not the Vietnam War on any such topic, but the school's grading system...
...question raised are not trivial, " said Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. 59, the committee's chairman. "To make a recommendation-on a topic on which there's considerable strength of feeling on both sides-without giving people a chance to say what concerns them doubles the problem...
Though President Bok (who earlier in the semester wrote an Open Letter on the topic of academic freedom) and Shattuck's predecessors were concerned with federal research restrictions, none had taken a public and comprehensive look at recent trends in federal restrictions, said Parker'L Coddington, director of governmental relations...
...donated blood, an important step toward preventing the spread of AIDS by transfusions. Last week, at the annual meeting of the American Association of Blood Banks in San Antonio, and at gatherings of AIDS-related groups in New York City and San Francisco, the new developments were the major topic of discussion. Finally, it appears, a few facts are emerging from the morass of fear and confusion...