Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TOKYO--Outgoing Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita and officials of Japan's governing party met yesterday to search for a new leader untouched by scandal and able to restore public trust in the government...
Hoffman pleaded guilty and served time on lesser charges. Though dismayed by the apolitical younger generation -- "Never trust anyone under 30," he declared -- he never stopped protesting. It was Timothy Leary, the advance scout of the LSD generation, who eulogized Hoffman most deftly last week. "An American legend," Leary called him. "Right up there in the hall of fame with rebel Huck Finn, rowdy Babe Ruth and crazy Lenny Bruce...
...whether Japanese politics is so blatantly suffused with the passing of cash that it is practically impossible for officeholders to avoid the appearance, if not the actual commission, of impropriety. Said Takako Doi, chairwoman of the Japan Socialist Party: "The Diet as well as politicians have lost the trust and confidence of the public...
...then former Attorney General Ed Meese said all the same things about many of the same accusations and doubts raised against him. Meese resigned. So should Wright, not from the Congress but as Speaker. By his own testimony he has bent if not broken his high trust and now burdens his nation...
...hope in the movement of alumni/ae to elect progressive, pro-divestment overseers. We see hope in the continuing student movements for divestment, to support union workers, against Central American intervention, for women's, minority and gay and lesbian rights. We know that without these movements--if we had to trust to the social conscience and tender mercies of the Harvard Corporation and administration--the outlook would be grim indeed. We are proud of our history, proud of those who continue the battle for social justice and hopeful for change at Harvard and in the world. Is it too much...