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This weekend, more than 655 women, 340 minority-group members and other freshmen descended on the Yard to begin a week-long orientation that will include lectures, parties and placement testing...
This seemingly rosy picture is clouded only by the physical status of Lundberg, who returned to the water Monday after a week-long bout with...
Brzezinski and his traveling mate, Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher, were in the midst of a week-long trip to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Their mission: explaining the new Carter Doctrine of throwing an American security blanket over Southwest Asia and the Persian Gulf to the two states in the region most vital to the West. Their first stop was Islamabad, where a week earlier Foreign Ministers of 35 Islamic states had issued a ringing condemnation of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...
...government of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini moved to challenge its foreign critics, it also cracked down on its internal dissidents. Following a week-long series of antigovernment riots by Azerbaijani militants, Revolutionary Guards in Tabriz raided and ransacked the headquarters of the Muslim People's Republic Party, which professes loyalty to Ayatullah Seyed Kazem Sharietmadari. Four people were killed in the predawn assault; eleven dissidents were captured and executed by a firing squad after a summary trial. According to reports from Kuwait, several Iranian army officers were secretly executed for plotting a military coup against Khomeini's theocratic regime...
American hopes of isolating the self-described "students" from the political leadership may have been unexpectedly advanced by a week-long tug of war over U.S. Chargé d'Affaires L. Bruce Laingen, who has been held at the Foreign Ministry since the embassy takeover. Two weeks ago, the militants had imperiously demanded that Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh send Laingen to the embassy for questioning about alleged "documents of espionage...