Word: travel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson, Dean of the College Harry Lewis is quoted as saying, about the Tuesday incident in which an Adams House resident was attacked, "It was not late at night on a well-lit street. What can one say except that students, women in particular, should try to travel with someone...
...this is what Dean Lewis intended, it is absolutely outrageous that he feels Harvard's responsibility for campus safety is entirely fulfilled by decreeing that women students should not walk alone at night. (Perhaps Dean Lewis is unaware that many students' schedules require them to travel home from the Yard late at night; for instance, my fall tutorial ended at 10.30 p.m.) If Dean Lewis did not intend to hold the student responsible for what happened to her, that is, to blame the victim, I find it deeply regrettable that the official who determines and embodies Harvard policy on undergraduate...
Brown says she travels 45 minutes each way every time she takes a vocal lesson. Some students even travel to New York City a few times a month to train for professional careers...
After the attacks, President Clinton immediately lashed out at a regime he labeled "repressive, violent, scornful of international law." The initial steps he took were relatively mild; they included suspending air travel and asking Congress to compensate the victims' families with money taken from $100 million in frozen Cuban assets. The real bite came, however, with Clinton's sudden support for the Helms-Burton bill, which will probably pass Congress this week. The President had been resisting the bill, but Castro ordered the planes shot down during an election year, and Clinton feels he cannot afford to alienate Cuban Americans...
...response to the attack, the Clinton administration has decided to support a bill that will tighten the sanctions of the already existing U.S. embargo and suspend most air travel to the island. It has also prompted an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council in order to obtain a declaration of condemnation against the Cuban government's actions. The administration's response to the attack can only be termed as weak and hesitant. We call on the administration to reconsider and increase the pressure on the illegitimate Castro regime, which is the most oppressive this hemisphere has ever witnessed...