Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wilkinson joined the police force of the small summer community that he had been visiting every July and August since he was a youngster. He began his new career in Wellfleet, Mass., as a special summer officer. He stayed through the season, got a more permanent position, saw the town's population shrink from 15,000 back to 2000 and began to get a glimpse of the real routine of small-town police work...
...subject of humor, the Cape Town caperers should not despair over the delay in the reply to their letter. It is a sad fact that attempts at humor are sometimes taken seriously, and President Bok may have been confused by the deadpan style of the "Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni for Divestiture" letter, and put off by the list of 300 plus signatures, a realistic but tedious touch. The Committee wishes the antiracist lambasters well in their drive to relax mammoth tensions with some satire, but we would appreciate a little consideration. Glenn McDonald '89 Henry Riggs...
Although the Saturday stabbing outside Out-of-Town-News is considered a rare event for the University's backyard, Paolillo said that two officers, a sergeant, and a car normally patrol Harvard Square after 9 p.m. on weekends. No increase in crime has been reported recently and greater security for the Square is not necessary, he added...
Even before the hanging, violence had begun to boil up in other parts of the country. In Athlone, a colored (mixed-race) suburb of Cape Town, police and residents engaged in a rare gun battle at a local mosque; one colored man was killed and a white police sergeant seriously wounded. A few days earlier, security forces drove a truck through the suburb and, when a crowd began to throw stones at it, officers concealed in wooden boxes atop the vehicle suddenly emerged and fired shotguns into the crowd. Antiapartheid leaders denounced the decoy operation, which South African newspapers dubbed...
...greater voice that the U.S. was often slow to acknowledge. Says former Ambassador (now U.S. Senator) Daniel Patrick Moynihan: "Our biggest failing at the U.N.. . .is that we have never been able to think in terms of political coalitions." In the U.N.'s General Assembly, dubbed a "town meeting of the world" by former Secretary-General Trygve Lie, each nation--from the Seychelles (pop. 65,000) to China (pop. more than 1 billion)--has an equal vote. As the number of U.N. member nations mushroomed from 50 to 159, the so-called nonaligned nations ganged...