Word: striking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Toward the end of the issue are six letters to the editor. One points out the omission of coverage of black student activists in an article on the student strike of 1969; it addresses fellow alumnae and alumni in calling for the increased role of Blacks in Harvard and Radcliffe histories...
...soldiers strike next door, ransacking the home of Rehab Abu Asab, 50. One of her four children is among the hundreds of Palestinians on the army's wanted list. "They've done this 14 times," she mutters. "Only God can stop them...
Although much of the talk centered around how the students and their dormmates liked their lives at Harvard, Bok and company also discussed the possiblity of the University's divestment from South Africa, the controversy over Harvard's shares in the strike-involved Pittson Steel Company, the presence of ROTC on campus and changes in the house assignment lottery...
...talks followed weeks of historic concessions by the Communists to the nation's emboldened opposition movement, which has filled the streets with pro-democracy protesters and threatened a general strike Monday unless reforms are made...
...Civic forum opposition movement and its Slovak counterpart, Public Against Violence, have threatened a nationwide general strike for Monday if a satisfactory government has not been formed...