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...that theme, usually delivered more in sorrow than in anger, are gaining currency. A veteran of the U.S. intelligence community last week said Gorbachev's "blunders are plunging Russia into a new Time of Troubles." That is an ominous reference to nearly a decade of Kremlin intrigue, civil unrest and international conflict in the 17th century...
Since the anti-Vietnam War student unrest of the late 1960s, Harvard hashad no on-campus ROTC program, but many studentscross-register...
Edley, who was the issues director for Gov. Michael S. Dukakis' presidential campaign, chairs the Public Interest Action Committee, a student-faculty task force set up by Clark to deal with this fall's unrest. Rosenberg is well known by many professors for his relative conservatism on issues that have come before the Harvard Law faculty...
...some of the President's top advisers. Said a ranking defense official: "You could argue that a Soviet Union that has lost Eastern Europe, that feels it is under assault on the periphery, sees Azerbaijanis tear down the fence with Iran, has the Baltics trying to spin loose, faces unrest in the Ukraine, labor disturbances, and still possesses a marvelous military capability is a much more dangerous creature than we faced ten years ago under Brezhnev...
...unrest began late last month, when 40,000 Albanians took to the streets of Pristina, Kosovo's capital, demanding the resignation of local leaders, free elections and the release of political prisoners. Kosovo's 1.7 million Albanians, who out-number Serbs and Montenegrins in the region almost 10 to 1, last flooded the streets eleven months ago, when Serbia tightened its grip on the nominally autonomous province. That decision triggered riots that left 28 dead...