Word: lettered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attention has only just been drawn to a letter published by The Crimson on November 13th, in which the Dean of the Divinity School [Ronald Theimann] explains why the School refused to host the conference I was organizing, "Apartheid's Arc and the Palestinian Uprising: Making the Connections." In the interests of accuracy--and honesty--it demands a response...
...letter Dean Theimann affirms "The School's commitment to the exercise of free speech throughout the University." These are encouraging words, but the School's recent rack record seems to imply a Middle East exception to the First Amendment. As I understand it, the School's refusal to host a conference was preceded by its refusal to host a conference called "Towards Peace in the Middle East," to be sponsored by the U.S. Inter-religious Committee...
...other five letters are about the Quarterly's denial of "equal time" to the right-to-life side of the abortion rights debate. While equal time is a neat idea for television media that are legally bound to observe a pretense of objective journalism, the Quarterly, happily, has no such obligations. Contrary to the claims of the letter-writers, the Quarterly has in the past featured articles by anti-choice activists. It is thrilling, now, however, to see the Quarterly take a feminist stand in the face of protest from some of its readers...
...President Bush sent me a very significant and friendly letter in connection with both my election as head of state and the removal of travel restrictions. I consider this a signal for closer relations with the U.S. There are some issues that still need to be clarified...
...Vaclav Havel, an open letter from Prague...