Word: weekend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard, President Derek C. Bok yesterday organized a letter from presidents of 15 leading American universities condemning last weekend's student massacres in Beijing. Addressed to the chair of China's State Education Commission, the letter called on Chinese officials "to cease this violence and to refrain from sending troops into centers of learning which could only result in more bloodshed...
...lesbian students hold a "kiss-in" protest at Mather House dining hall after a gay man reports he was harassed the weekend before for making advances on a high school senior. The alleged harassment and the kiss-in polarize much of the house...
...opponent, Stephen Comley, hired an airplane pulling an antinuclear banner to fly by President Bush's vacation residents in Kennebunkport, about 40 miles up the Maine coast. Bush was spending the weekend there...
B.A.S.S. is the creation of Ray Scott, 56, a former insurance salesman who in 1967 sensed the weekend angler's craving for tips on outwitting the combative black bass, which are actually green. The biggest ones are referred to by aficionados as lunkers. Says Scott, a fishing pal of Bush's: "The bass is so unbelievably fickle that the world's best minds can't tell you where he'll show next. He's a phantom." Aided by that mystique, Scott organized the professional tours and arranged sponsorship deals in which manufacturers help pay expenses. The company's fortunes have...
...sexual scrutiny as a candidate for President, to run for majority leader. Gephardt had been lying low until Coelho dropped out -- he and Coelho have a noncompete clause in their friendship contract -- so late Friday he was scrambling to get members' home phone numbers to campaign over the weekend. Georgia's Ed Jenkins, an ally of powerful Chicago Congressman Dan Rostenkowski, is another likely candidate. Former Budget Chairman Bill Gray, Arkansas' Beryl Anthony and Michigan's David Bonior will probably fight it out for Coelho's majority-whip slot...