Word: yarding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Members of the Undergraduate Council's new committee on security took a College official on a late-night tour yesterday to demonstrate how poor lighting in the Yard can contribute to crime...
...avenger is an Iranian, $1 million if he is not. The following day, thanks to the generosity of still another Iranian philanthropist, the reward is doubled. Governments are angered, publishers intimidated, airlines subjected to bomb threats. The author and his family scurry into hiding, protected by Scotland Yard...
Asked if he took Khomeini's threat seriously, Rushdie, clearly shaken, replied, "I think I have to take it very seriously indeed." He canceled a planned book tour in the U.S., moved out of his four-story house in North London and, under protection of Scotland Yard's antiterrorist squad, quietly disappeared. Then, in a formal statement released on Saturday, he declared, "I profoundly regret the distress that publication has occasioned to sincere followers of Islam...
...next step in the University's plan was to lock the east, west and north entrances to the Science Center each night. A security guard would then have been seated facing the only entrance to the building, the one across from the Yard. After 10 p.m., visitors to the building would have had to show University identification...
...There's no Harvard type," he says. But as he glances around pre-frosh party in a Yard dorm with a drink in his hand he says, "Actually, there aren't too many jocks in this group. The prefrosh seem to be a pretty academic-minded group...