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...election campaign. That's what the hawkish Israeli prime minister is being accused of in the wake of his decision to close Orient House, the Palestinian Authority's unofficial headquarters in the city. Israeli opposition leaders charged on Friday that Netanyahu made the move knowing that likely Palestinian unrest in the heart of Jerusalem would work for him on the eve of Israel's election. "This may have created a very dangerous situation, but it's politically expedient for Netanyahu," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "Denying a Palestinian political presence in Jerusalem will please his supporters...
Some attribute the calm to general apathy, others to better working conditions for teaching fellows (TFs) and research assistants, but the Harvard scene appears relatively unique as unrest spreads at both private and public institutions...
...During the student unrest in the late '60s and early '70s, Anderson worked closely with the administration and senior faculty to orchestrate peaceful and festive ceremonies despite tension on campus," the press release stated...
...dealt directly with nearly every major dilemma Cambridge has confronted in the past 40 years, from racial unrest and student protest in the 1960s to economic woes and crime waves in the '70s, through the desegregation wars of 1980 and 1981 to the economic renaissance of the late...
...behalf of my fellow veterans who can no longer speak, I ask those who back Tran's freedom of expression not to confuse free speech with acts of treason and inciting a riot. The communists are very adept at creating unrest and then using our laws to further their cause. JERRY MAZENKO Garden Grove, Calif...