Word: ued
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the U.s. was not involved in a war, there were several major international events during the time the Class of 1960 was at Harvard: the Soviet Union invaded Hungary, shot down Gary Powers and the U-2 plane he piloted on a spy mission over Russian soil: China developed its own atomic bomb; the Suez Canal crisis brewed; Castro rose to power; and racial conflict in South Africa came to a head in the bloody Sharpeville riots...
...postpone the visit of one Spruance-class destroyer and two frigates. The reason China took the no-nuke position is unclear. Analysts say because the announcement coincided with the start-up of talks between Peking and Moscow, it is possible Hu was trying to calm Soviet fears that Sino-U.S. relations might pose some kind of military threat. It is also possible that Hu, who made the statement while on a visit to Australia, was trying to ensure a warm welcome at his next port of call, New Zealand, where the government has locked horns with Washington over...
Most recent debate over South Africa has focused on the question of whether the U S--and Harvard in particular--should divest of its holdings in companies which do business there. Organizers of Saturday's event said they wanted to present a forum that could provide background information for the "average student who has heard of the issue but doesn't know that much about it." SAC Chairman Peter T. Gelfman '85-'86 said...
...good will, who wants to be sincere. His casuistical, self congratulatory position on South Africa is something that he hates because he knows its moral flimsiness. He despises the racism which he finds himself standing with. He sees that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the city of Boston, U. Mass., Smith, and Hampshire colleges have all comfortably divested. Bok is stuck, afraid to step outside and see the tragedy he is building himself into...
...examined Nicholson; by then he was dead. The next day, an East German ambulance delivered Nicholson's body to a U.S. honor guard at the center of Berlin's Glienicker Brucke, the bridge at the East-West crossing point where captured Soviet Spy Rudolf Abel was exchanged for downed U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers...