Word: useful
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Ironically, neither the issue of free speech nor the potential controversy of this conference ever entered into our decision. Following the mid-September request for the use of our space, Associate Dean Timothy Cross spoke with Nancy Murray, conference organizer, who provided routine information regarding the purpose of the event, date, time, size of the anticipated audience, etc. She also offered her judgment, unsolicited, that the conference was likely to be controversial and felt that we would probably need to discuss a security presence beyond our normal levels...
Reflecting the new open-border policy, East German Defense Minister Heinz Kessler said yesterday that border guards who once shot at their fleeing countrymen, have been told not to use firearms any more in cases of border violations...
Section 2. Any owner who has occupied a single family house or a condominium unit for his or her own use for a period of at least two years shall be deemed exempt from Rent Control (and said single family house or condominium unit shall not be deemed a controlled rental unit under the Rent Control Act) with respect to any subsequent rental by the owner or his or her family, heirs or estate...
...proceed from the position that the foreign policy of the Soviet Union is based on demilitarization. The use of force is ruled out, except when someone confronts the Soviet Union from a position of strength. Some Soviets may approve of the changes in Hungary and Poland, others not. That's their opinion. Our policy is such that we are not interfering in these internal processes...
...raging through his country by paying polite compliments to the perestroika that East German leaders had formerly held in contempt. The Soviet experiments could "teach us a great deal," he said after being closeted for three hours with Mikhail Gorbachev. "We are ready to put the vanguard experience to use...