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...growing demand by students for more course choices, more diversity, more access to professors and--one of the most salient trends of the post-'60s student body--more amenities, including comfy dorms, indoor tennis courts and pools. Meyerson had been acting chancellor at Berkeley during the height of student unrest. At Penn, he says, "the worst sit-in I experienced was when we tried to shut down the hockey rink...
...against him and his ruling party. Hundreds of thousands of Albanians who lost millions in the failed schemes are blaming Berisha's ruling Democratic party of profiting from their losses. Leader s of Berisha's political foe - the socialist party based in the south - have taken advantage of the unrest and called upon the president to form a coalition with the socialists and call early elections. Berisha remains cold to these demands. Meanwhile%2 C residents in the south are scrambling to stock up on food and blankets and today the Italian coast guard intercepted fishing boats filled with...
...unknown amount of damage. Although the government denies its forces are attacking civilians, crew members of a military jet that defected to southern Italy on Tuesday said they had been given orders to bomb civilian targets. President Sali Barisha has launched a major security operation to quell the unrest, which has seen the southern cities of Delvine, Vlora and Sarande spin out of government control. But although the crackdown has included an escalating campaign against local journalists -- the independent Koha Jone daily has had its offices partially burned and several reporter beaten -- insurgents are not backing down. They have reportedly...
Tajikistan, the troubled former republic of the Soviet Union, where some 100,000 people have died in civil unrest since early 1992, is being drawn into the brutal war across its southern border in Afghanistan. Officials in Tajikistan as well as Moscow (which is propping up the Tajik government) say the southern town of Kulyab, the political stronghold of Tajik President Imomali Rakhmonov, has become a major resupply base for Afghan forces opposed to the Taliban, the fundamentalist Islamic fighters who have taken control of much of Afghanistan in the past year. Sources have told TIME the military aid either...
...country entered a state of emergency amid widespread violence, Albania's parliament re-elected the man who pledged to use an "iron fist" to end the chaos. Thus President Sali Berisha enters his fifth year as leader of this often forgotten Eastern European nation, which has been gripped with unrest since mid-January when failed pyramid schemes left thousands destitute. Under the state of emergency, declared Sunday evening, people cannot gather in groups of more than four and must stay off the streets between 8 pm and 7 am. People caught outside during those hours will be arrested or even...