Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Iranians had arrived in Queens after being imprisoned for a total of ten days following their arrest for disorderly conduct during a violent demonstration in Washington. They were allowed to select lawyers and to meet with a Muslim clergyman. And because it was Ramadan, the Islamic holy month that imposes fasting during the day, prison authorities established a special dining schedule, serving a meal just before sunrise and another after sunset. Even so, the prisoners went on a hunger strike and some eventually even had to be force...
...case was a major blow for Mugabe, who was playing host last week to visiting Mozambican President Samora Machel. Described by aides as "embarrassed and enraged" at the alleged conduct of a longtime friend and comrade, Mugabe promptly sent word to Parliament that full justice would be done. Whatever the outcome of the judicial pro cess, the case would be sure to confront Mugabe's own leadership with a series of crucial tests and uncertainties...
Beginning in October, department investigators will conduct interviews at at least seven schools, including Cornell--a bit close to Cambridge's creeping Ivy for comfort. While Harvard has adhered closely to the spirit of Title IX, there is no telling where a federal bureau might go to make a forcible example. Miller, then, along with director Jack Reardon, will have to stay on top of the University's status on these crucial and sometimes blurry affairs...
...Senate, seven Judiciary Committee members are being joined by Democrat Claiborne Pell and Republican Richard Lugar of the Foreign Relations Committee to make up the special subcommittee that will conduct the main study of the controversy. The panel last week set a working timetable for its hearings and dispatched messengers bearing official requests for information to the President, the Secretaries of State, Energy and Commerce, the Attorney General, and the directors of the CIA, FBI and the National Security Agency. The committee is requesting an avalanche of material: tape recordings, diaries, logs and records of telephone calls and personal conversations...
...government has granted a research team at the Graduate School of Education almost $120,000 to conduct an unprecedented study into characteristics that may determine success among Black scholars...