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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would be bothersome enough if a council member simply promoted the organization by misleading unsuspecting students, but it's worse. The council paid $600 to mislead students--that's $600 of our money. Thirty of you folks should be aware that your $20 contribution to the Undergraduate Council paid for a sleazy public relations ploy...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Lies, Damned Lies, Council Ads | 9/21/1989 | See Source »

Edward J. Samp, the Republican who chairs the four-member Election Commission, says he opposed the wording at the July meeting because he believed it would mislead voters...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Cambridge's Perennial Issue Rears Its Head | 9/15/1989 | See Source »

Edward J. Samp, the Republican who chairs the four-member Election Commission, says he opposed the wording at the July meeting because he believed it would mislead voters...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Cambridge's Perennial Issue Rears Its Head | 9/13/1989 | See Source »

Edward J. Samp, the Republican who chairs the four-member Election Commission, says he opposed the wording at the July meeting because he believed it would mislead voters...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: Cambridge's Perennial Issue Rears Its Head | 9/11/1989 | See Source »

...days after the Tiananmen massacre, government organs pressed a surreal drive to mislead the country about what had happened. Most of the victims of what they described as a battle against "counterrevolutionary insurgents" were soldiers, claimed a government spokesman, who placed among the dead a few hundred troops and only 23 students. Hours later, those figures were revised again and turned into impossibly good news by a man in military uniform on state television. Said the officer: "Not one person died in the square." Late last week state radio was even claiming that no soldiers opened fire in Tiananmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China The Wrath of Deng | 6/19/1989 | See Source »

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