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Alianza plans to participate in a national minority group protest on April 6 that will include over 30 law schools, said James Vigil, a third-year student. Stanford, Chicago and Yale are among the law schools whose minority groups are participating...
Though the vigil for the Emperor lasted more than three months, the Japanese were not officially informed that Hirohito suffered from cancer until after he died. Within moments of the death announcement, mourners converged on the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. "Since he fell ill, I've been praying every day for his recovery," said office clerk Yuko Kitagawa, 32, tears streaming down her cheeks. "I'm just sad." The National Police Agency mobilized 15,000 police to patrol the Imperial and Togu palaces. Many flags flew at half-staff; others were adorned with black ribbons. Japan's stock and bond...
Ending a somber national vigil, the ruler of the Chrysanthemum Throne succumbs to cancer at 87. His son and successor, Crown Prince Akihito, remains a mystery to his countrymen and a cipher abroad. -- Despite Gorbachev' s promise that consumer goods will proliferate under perestroika, the opposite proves true. -- A day in the life of a Soviet shopper...
...trade-union vacation centers in Georgia and the Crimea. Officials said about 38,000 people had been evacuated from the entire earthquake-damaged region and up to 70,000 were expected to leave. But many women in Spitak and other devastated communities refused to go, preferring to keep vigil by the still entombed bodies of their loved ones. "Why should we leave?" asked an elderly woman in Spitak. "This has been our home for 500 years...
Meanwhile, outside the athletic building, several hundred students from a BC committee formed this year to protest North's appearance, calling themselves the Committee to Resurrect the Social Justice Lecture Series, staged a candlelight vigil and a rally outside the gymnasium...