Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iranians were inspired by Khomeini, who railed against Iraq's "godless" rulers, dismissing them as pawns of "the great Satan." Saddam was an "infidel guilty of blasphemy." What particularly galled the Iranians was that in the wake of the revolution, Iraq had given sanctuary to a force of some 3,000 Iranian soldiers now known as the Iran Liberation Army and gathered by General Ghoylam Ali Ovisi, 59, the former military commander of Tehran. The I.L.A. was not involved in last week's fighting but was reportedly ready to move into Iran behind the Iraqis...
Campus cries of interference from Washington and the courts are all too familiar. But last week the level of lamentation rose to a new crescendo in the wake of two incidents. First there was the jailing, for contempt of court, of University of Georgia Education Professor James A. Dinnan, 50; second there was Washington's announcement that the University of California at Berkeley risked becoming the nation's first university to lose federal contracts in a dispute over affirmative action. Under attack in Georgia, as well as California, was one of the academic world's most sacred...
...University should strive to cut through the red tape created by other institutions. Specifically, Harvard should take advantage of Vice President Mondale's renewed commitment to "excellence in higher education" by demanding its share of proposed increases in University research funds, especially in the wake of last March's federal cuts. But letting Mondale's promises ring with the hollowness of election-year rhetoric, Harvard would be passing up another opportunity to give its students their $10,000-worth...
...Faculty committee on the Third World Center, formed by President Bok last spring in the wake of student proposals for the center, met six times over the summer but concentrated on "underlying philosophical issues rather than development of the center itself," Lydia A. Jackson '82, president of the Black Students Association and summer student representative to the committee, said last night...
...problem for the candidates as they strive to gain every edge- overt and subliminal-is tricky: How can they wake the viewers up and still appear cool and presidential...